Simple Liver Cyst as a Focus of Salmonella paratyphi Abscess: A Case Report

• Published in: Journal of Tropical Medicine
• Main Authors: A. Sangwaiya, A. Patel, J. Chan, J. Arnold
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2009
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Traveller
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1155/2009/456810; https://doaj.org/article/f08b3ff48ba847b0a945b2b8aa770eeb

Salmonellosis, endemic in various part of the world, is considered a differential diagnosis in a tropical traveller. Although it usually presents as gastroenteritis, its various clinical syndromes may vary from mild gastroenteritis to severe septicaemia including abscess formation, the later two being the most common cause of morbidity and mortality. Here we present a patient who returned to the UK after an overseas trip and was diagnosed with a pyogenic liver abscess with Salmonella paratyphi at a site of a pre-existing simple liver cyst.