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