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Presentation of Case

A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of left subcostal pain, bouts of fever, and a mass in the left hepatic lobe.

The patient had been well until four years earlier, when she began to have progressive, constant left subcostal pain, with an intermittent increase in the temperature to 39.4°C, anorexia, and nausea. The episodes occurred approximately every six months and lasted for a week or two; they had recently begun to occur every four months.

Three months before admission an evaluation elsewhere included an ultrasonographic examination, a computed tomographic (CT) scan of the abdomen, and a magnetic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. J. Milburn Jessup's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

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