Hepatic abscess induced by foreign body: Case report and literature review

Table 1 World literature review of hepatic abscess induced by foreign bodies

Ref	Year	Author	Symptoms	Sufferingperiod	Foreignbody	Size(cm)	Penetration	Liver	Bacteria	Laparotomy	Treatment	Mortality
[1]	2003	Kanazana	Epigastralgia	1 mo	Toothpick	5.5	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Abscess drained and removal of a small part of the liver	No
[2]	2000	Cheung	Epigastralgia, fever	3 mo	Toothpick	-	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	removal of the toothpick and a small part of the liver	No
[3]	2000	Broome	Epigastralgia, anorexia, fever	7 d	Chicken bone	4.0	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the chicken bone and abscess drainage	No
[4]	1999	Horii	Fever, vomiting	2 wk	Fish bone	2.8	Unknown	Left lobe	Streptococcus constellatus	No	Percutaneous abscess drainage	No
[5]	2003	Chintamani	Fever, vomiting	1 yr	Needle	3.0	Unknown	Right lobe	Streptococcus pyogenes, E. coli	Yes	Removal of the needle and abscess drainage	No
[6]	2001	La Veja	Abdominal pain, vomiting	Unknown	Fish bone	2.5	Unknown	Right lobe	-	Autopsy		Yes
[7]	1999	Perkins	Fever, anaemia	2 wk	Pen	-	Duodenum	Right lobe	Streptococcus malleri (group C), Sreptococcus malleri	No	Removal of the pen and abscess drainage	No
[8]	1983	Shaw	Fever		Dental plate	-	Descending colon		Unknown
[9]	1997	Tsui			Clothespin, Tooth pick	-	Duodenum Stomach		Unknown
[10]	1993	Chen	Epigastralgia, fever, weight loss	3 mo	Chicken bone	4.0	Duodenum	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the chicken bone and abscess drainage	No
[11]	2003	Bilimoria	Right upper abdominal pain, fever	Unknown	Toothpick	-	Sigmoid colon	Right lobe	Estreptococcus	Yes	Removal of the toothpick and abscess drainage	No
[12]	2004	Tomimori	Epigastralgia	4 wk	Fish bone	1.0	Stomach	Left lobe	Sreptococcus constellatus	Yes	Removal of the fish bone and abscess drainage	No
[13]	2001	Kessler	Abdominal pain	4 wk	Fish bone	Unknown	Duodenum	Left lobe	Eikenella corrodens	Yes	Removal of the fish bone and abscess drainage	No
[14]	2000	Paraskeva	Abdominal pain	4 mo	Fish bone	3.7	Sigmoid colon	Right lobe	Sreptococcus malleri	No	Removal of the fish bone	No
[15]	1999	Drnovsek	Abdominal pain, vomiting	1 d	Toothpick	Unknown	Duodenum	Both	Streptococcus viridens	Yes	Removal of the toothpick	No
[16]	1999	Guglielminet ti			Toothpick	-	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	No	Endoscopic toothpick removal and percutaneous abscess drainage
[17]	2002	Theodoropo ulou	Right upper abdominal pain, fever, jaundice	3 d	Fish bone	5.5	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Autopsy		Yes
[18]	1981	Wood	Fever, diarrhea	9 mo	Needle	-	Retrocecal appendix	Right lobe	Streptococcus viridens	Yes	Removal of the needle and abscess drainage
[19]	2005	Starakis	Right upper abdominal pain, fever	3 wk	Chicken bone	-	Duodenum	Left lobe	Sreptococcus viridans, Eikenella corrodens	Yes	Removal of the chiken bone and abscess drainage	No
[20]	2003	Houli	Right upper abdominal pain, fever	2 wk	Chicken bone	3.5	Transverse colon	Right lobe	Streptococcus angiosus and mixed anaerobic flora	Yes	Abscess drainage, removal of the chicken bone and a small part of the liver	No
[21]	2001	Byard	Abdominal pain, fever	Several years	Chicken bone	3.8	Duodenum	Both	E. coli, mixed anaerobes and Candida albicans	Autopsy		Yes
[22]	1999	Chan	Abdominal pain, fever	Unknown	Fish bone	-	Stomach		Unknown	Yes	Removal of the fish bone, abscess drainage and parcial gastrectomy	No
[23]	1999	Tsai	Abdominal pain, fever		Fish bone	3.7	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	No	Abscess drainage and simple closure of the perforated hole	No
[24]	1992	Shuldais			Fish bone	-	Stomach		Unknown
[25]	1991	Masunaga	Abdominal pain, fever, vomiting	1wk	Fish bone	4.0	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Percutaneous abscess drainage, parcial gastrectomy and lateral segmentectomy
[26]	1990	Allimant	Fever, astenia	3 wk	Toothpick	-	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Drainage and removal of the tooth pick and a small part of the liver	No
[27]	1986	Penderson	Abdominal pain, shock	Unknown	Toothpick	3.5	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the toothpick and abscess drainage	No
[28]	1988	Gonzalez	Abdominal pain, fever, jaundice, nausea	1 mo	Fish bone	Unknown	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the fish bone and abscess drainage	No
[29]	1981	Rafizadeth	Low-grade fever	10 d	Toothpick	4.2	Duodenum	Left lobe	Estreptococcus	Yes	Removal of the toothpick and abscess drainage	No
[30]	1966	Aron	Astenia, fever, jaundice	3 mo	Fish bone	2.2	Stomach	Right lobe	E. coli, Proteus	Yes	Removal of the toothpick, abscess drainage and piloroplasty	No
[31]	1971	Berk	Right upper abdominal pain	Several weeks	Chicken bone	4.0	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the chicken bone, abscess drainage and parcial gastrectomy
[32]	1996	Acosta			Needle	-	Appendix		Unknown
[33]	1971	Abel	None	Unknown	Needle	2.5	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the needle and segmentectomy	No
[34]	1981	Tsuboi	Epigastralgia, weight loss	1 mo	Fish bone	4.7	Stomach	Left lobe	Unknown	Yes	Removal of the fish bone and abscess drainage	No
[35]	1984	Bloch	Fever, myalgia	2 wk	toothpick	4.5	Stomach or Duodenum	Left lobe	Estreptococcus	Yes	Removal of the toothpick and abscess drainage
[36]	1955	Griffiths	Septic shock	Unknown	Needle	4.0	Stomach	Right lobe	Unknown	Autopsy		Yes
	1955	Griffiths	Fever , vomiting	1 mo	Toothpick	6.0	Duodenum	Right lobe	Unknown	Autopsy		Yes
[37]	1990	Dugger	Fever, right upper abdominal pain	3 wk	Fish bone or Chicken bone	3.8	Stomach	Right lobe	E. coli, Proteus	Autopsy
[38]	2005	Lee	Epigastralgia	5 d	Body piercing	5.0	Stomach	Left lobe	Klebsiella spp, Streptococcus milleri	Yes	Removal of the piercing, closure of the perforated hole and abscess drainage	No
	2005	Lee	Fever, epigastralgia, nausea, vomiting	1 wk	Fish bone	3.5	Stomach	Left lobe	Streptococcus milleri	Yes	Removal of the fish bone, closure of the perforated hole and abscess drainage	No
	2005	Lee	Epigastralgia	10 d	-	-	Stomach	Left lobe	Streptococcus milleri	Yes	Closure of the perforated hole	No
[39]	2005	Goh	Fever	5 d	Fish bone	3.0	Duodenum	Left lobe	Streptococcus milleri	Yes	Removal of the fish bone and abscess drainage	No
[40]	2006	Chiang	Right upper abdominal pain, fever	3 d	Toohpick	6.7	Duodenum	Right lobe	Staphylococcus aureus	No	Antibiotics (refused surgery)	No