Abstract
In October, 1993, a 66-year-old man with diabetes who had had a stuffy feeling in his throat for 1 month was admitted to hospital for the evaluation and treatment of a liver mass, which had been found about 1 year before but not treated. Investigations showed the mass to be a hepatocellular cancer. He had a left hepatic lobectomy after his blood sugar had been controlled. After the operation, he became delirious and pulled out the intravenous feeding tube put in his right subclavian vein. His delirium improved but he developed septic shock due to a subclavian abscess caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus on postoperative day 7 and hypovolaemic shock due to a bleeding gastric ulcer on day 12.
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