The pain began as a dull ache in his abdomen. Fever followed. At first glance, doctors saw a common problem—a liver abscess, ...

A pyogenic liver abscess may appear as a mass containing gas and fluid in the liver when viewed with CT scans.

Imaging scans, such as an abdominal ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI can help locate and measure the abscess. It may be necessary to extract fluid from the abscess to confirm the diagnosis and the ...

What is the procedure for a liver scan, and who may need one? Read on to learn more about liver scans, such as the different types and conditions they can help diagnose.

This gives your doctor a complete view of the area. A CT scan can display ruptures, localized abscesses, organs, abdominal growths, and foreign objects in the body.

A man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms had an unusual cause.

A follow-up CT scan four days after the initial scan showed an increase in the size of the liver abscesses, some suggesting impending rupture. Because we were concerned about abscess rupture, we ...

A CT scan showed a multi-septated abscess in the liver (Figure 1); the abscess was drained percutaneously, and 140 mL of watery-brown fluid was aspirated. The fluid was reactive to E. histolytica IgG, ...

Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their ...