Liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum: a case report

BMC Surgery

Table 1 Reports on liver abscess caused by fish bone perforation

Case	Year of publication	Author	Age (years)	Sex	Abscess portion	Perforation portion	How to form liver abscess
1	1990	Aoki	73	Male	Right lobe	unknown	unknown
2	1993	Tamura	61	Male	Left lobe	unknown	unknown
3	1995	Matsuzaki	56	Male	Right lobe	duodenum	directly
4	1995	Kato	73	Female	Left lobe	stomach	directly
5	1995	Mimoto	50	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
6	1999	Horii	61	Male	Left lobe	unknown	directly
7	2005	Oda	38	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
8	2006	Roki	77	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
9	2006	Mizunuma [3]	53	Female	Right lobe	duodenum	directly
10	2007	Nagai	54	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
11	2007	Kadowaki	73	Male	Left lobe	duodenum	directly
12	2008	Clarençon	64	Male	Right lobe	unknown	directly
13	2009	Matsuo	74	Female	Left lobe	stomach	directly
14	2010	Kataoka	64	Female	Left lobe	unknown	unknown
15	2011	Ohara	81	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
16	2013	Akimori	72	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
17	2014	Mukaihashi	68	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
18	2015	Ishikawa	63	Male	Right lobe	unknown	unknown
19	2015	Hosoi	83	Female	Left lobe	stomach	directly
20	2016	Nagashima [13]	62	Male	Right lobe	ileum	via portal vein
21	2017	Urata	75	Female	Left lobe	duodenum	directly
22	2018	Kohama	74	Male	Left lobe	unknown	directly
23	2019	Tsutsumi	41	Male	Left lobe	stomach	directly
		Our case	54	Male	Right lobe	ileum	via portal vein

To our knowledge, there has been only one case report with a similar presentation [13]; that report described a case of liver abscess secondary to fish bone perforation via the portal vein

ISSN: 1471-2482