Abstract
Nonparasitic liver abscess is infrequently seen by any single surgeon in practice. However, collected series reported by DeBakey and Jordan [7] and Rubin et al. [18] indicate that the incidence of the disease remains the same as it was 50 years ago, that is, around 1 in 10,000 hospital admissions. The mortality rate remains high, ranging from 36% to 91%. However, the etiology of the disease, its clinical presentation, and the bacteriology have changed considerably over this period of time.
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Longmire, W.P., Tompkins, R.K. (1981). Infections. In: Manual of Liver Surgery. Comprehensive Manuals of Surgical Specialties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5835-3_5
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