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| Year : 2010 | Volume
: 15
| Issue : 2 | Page : 72-73 |
Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate
Praveen Ravishankaran, G Rajamani
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Coimbatore, India
Correspondence Address:
Praveen Ravishankaran
1, Chaturvedi Nagar, Rayappa Layout, Ganapathy, Coimbatore - 641 006, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.70648
We report a 28-day-old neonate presenting with signs of fever, abdominal distension, and refusal to feed. The baby was diagnosed to have multiple liver abscesses which ruptured and a tract lead to the pericardium resulting in a pyo-pericardium. Laparoscopic drainage of the abscess cavities and the pyo-pericardium was performed. An extensive search of the literature revealed that this case is the youngest one to have undergone such simultaneous laparoscopic drainage.
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