UNUSUAL COMPLICATIONS OF AMEBIASIS

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Case Reports1 April 1948UNUSUAL COMPLICATIONS OF AMEBIASISBERNARD M. CHAPMAN, HAROLD SCHWARTZ, DONALD B. HAISLIPBERNARD M. CHAPMANSearch for more papers by this author, HAROLD SCHWARTZSearch for more papers by this author, DONALD B. HAISLIPSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-28-4-850 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAmebiasis has popularly been considered a disease of the tropics. This, however, has long been known to be incorrect. Ochsner and De Bakey1have stated that amebiasis exists in 10 to 20 per cent of the population of the United States. Its incidence in the tropics is, however, very much higher and it was therefore to be expected that our returning troops would bring back the disease to this country and make it of much greater significance to the practicing physician.Amebiasis is a disease with protean manifestations. The term "amebic dysentery," which describes only one symptom, is inadequate. It...Bibliography1. OCHSNERDE BAKEY AM: Amebic hepatitis and hepatic abscess, Surgery, 1943, xiii, 460-493, 612-649. Google Scholar2. FUTCHER TB: A study of the cases of amebic dysentery occurring at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1903, xli, 480. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. BUCHANAN WJ: Dysentery as a factor in liver abscess, the other side of the question, Jr. Trop. Med., 1899, l, 173. Google Scholar4. DAVIDSON A: Tropical abscess of the liver, in Allbutt and Rolleston's System of medicine, 1907, Macmillan & Co., London and New York, pp. 579-592. Google Scholar5. WALTERSWATKINSBUTTMARSHALL WCHHRJM: Amebic abscess of the liver unsuspected until perforation, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1944, cxxv, 963. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. ANDERSONJOHNSTONEHANSEN HHHGEL: Amebiasis: pathology, diagnosis and treatment. Exhibit for the A.M.A., San Francisco July 1-5, 1946. Google Scholar7. CANTLIE J: Recovery from liver abscess, followed by abscess of the upper lobe of the right lung and empyema, Brit. Med. Jr., 1904, ii, 671. Google Scholar8. FAUST EC: The incidence and significance of infestation with E. histolytica in New Orleans and the American tropics, Am. Jr. Trop. Med., 1931, xi, 231. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. ROGERS L: Lettsonian Lectures on amebic liver abscess: its pathology, prevention, and cure. Lecture I: Etiology and pathology of amebic liver abscess, Lancet, 1922, i, 463. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. JAMES WM: Human amoebiasis due to infection with Entamoeba histolytica , Ann. Trop. Med., 1928, xxii, 201. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication October 15, 1946.Credit is given to U. S. Army Air Force, Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command, for photographs of gross specimens. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 April 1948Volume 28, Issue 4Page: 850-861KeywordsAmebiasisDysenteryEntamoeba histolytica ePublished: 14 March 2020 Issue Published: 1 April 1948 PDF downloadLoading ...