Clinical Study
Are Pyogenic Liver Abscesses Still a Surgical Concern? A Western Experience
Table 7
A PLA literature review.
| Series | Country | Year | Age | Male patients % | Number of patients | Fever % | Abdominal pain % | Unique PLA % | Right lobe % | Gas % | Mortality % |
| Farges (1) | France | 1998 | 51 | 47 | 46 | 75 | 55 | ? | ? | | 24 | Branum (2) | USA | 1990 | 53 | 52 | 73 | 78 | 80 | 59 | 70 | | 19 | Stain (3) | USA | 1991 | 47 | 59 | 54 | 45 | 14 | 57 | 59 | | 2 | Mischinger (4) | Austria | 1994 | 51 | 65 | 46 | 80 | 54 | 68 | 74 | | 17 | Chou (5) | Taiwan | 1995 | 56 | 58 | 424 | 92 | 55 | 70 | 65 | 20 | 16 | Huang (6) | USA | 1996 | 55 | 57 | 153 | 67 | 89 | 52 | 63 | | 31 | Chu (7) | Hong Kong | 1996 | 60 | 57 | 83 | 70 | 53 | ? | 69 | | 18 | Chou (13) | Taiwan | 1997 | 55 | 58 | 483 | 92 | 82 | 69 | 66 | 20 | 15 | Yeh (8) | Taiwan | 1998 | 56 | 55 | 52 | 93 | 53 | 94 | ? | 10 | 21 | Lee (9) | Taiwan | 2001 | 53 | 62 | 133 | 92 | 69 | 73 | 71 | | 6 | Alvarez (10) | Spain | 2001 | 60 | 62 | 133 | 90 | 40 | 87 | 73 | | 14 | Tan (11) | Singapore | 2005 | 60 | 58 | 80 | ? | ? | 76 | ? | | 4 | Ferraioli (12) | Italy | 2005 | 61 | 61 | 148 | ? | ? | ? | ? | | 0 |
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