RESUMO
Neonatal liver abscess is a rare entity. There are no published reports of neonatal liver abscess in the radiology literature in the past 15 years. We recently encountered a premature infant in whom a hepatic abscess was diagnosed solely based on abnormal radiographic studies. We report this case to illustrate the unusual clinical and radiographic abnormalities seen with neonatal solitary hepatic abscess.
Assuntos
Doenças do Prematuro/diagnóstico por imagem , Recém-Nascido Prematuro , Abscesso Hepático/congênito , Doenças em Gêmeos , Feminino , Infecções por Haemophilus/congênito , Infecções por Haemophilus/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Abscesso Hepático/diagnóstico por imagem , Radiografia Abdominal , Infecções Estafilocócicas/congênito , Infecções Estafilocócicas/diagnóstico por imagem , Staphylococcus epidermidis , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , GêmeosRESUMO
A solitary hepatic abscess was found at postmortem examination in a neonate who died at 25 days of age. Elevation of the right diaphragm was noted radiologically from the first day of life, suggesting congenital presence of the abscess. Recognition of the previously unsuspected association between hepatic abscess and congenital diaphragmatic elevation might have led to surgical intervention and have increased the infant's chance of survival.
