TY - JOUR AU - Yokota , Takashi AU - Iwamoto , Kazutsugu AU - Watanabe , Yuko AU - Yamauchi , Hidemi AU - Kikuchi , Shu AU - Hatori , Masahito PY - 2009/07/12 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Pyogenic Liver Abscesses Secondary to Carcinoma of the Sigmoid Colon JF - Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences JA - ujms VL - 110 IS - 3 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.3109/2000-1967-070 UR - https://ujms.net/index.php/ujms/article/view/6461 SP - 241–244 AB - We report a case of liver abscesses associated with sigmoid colon cancer in an 81-yearold woman. The patient was referred to our hospital because of a tumorous lesion of the sigmoid colon. Five days before the scheduled operation, she presented abdominal pain, fever and chill. Imaging scans revealed multiple liver abscesses in both lobes, which were successfully treated with intravenously administered antibiotics. Two weeks later, the patient underwent laparoscopic-assisted sigmoidectomy. Nineteen cases of liver abscess associated with colonic cancer have been reported during the past ten years in Japan, and we report the clinical features of these cases in this paper. An aggressive search for the underlying cause of pyogenic liver abscess should be an integral part of the definitive treatment of this disease. ER -