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Unusual association of diseases/symptoms
A solid organising cryptogenic liver abscess and its association with a colonic tubullovillous adenoma
  1. Christopher B Tan1,
  2. Mitanshu Shah1,
  3. Dhyan Rajan2,
  4. Seth Lipka1,
  5. Shadab Ahmed3,
  6. Lester Freedman4,
  7. Kaleem Rizvon2,
  8. Paul Mustacchia2
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA
  2. 2Department of Gastroenterology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA
  3. 3Department of Infectious Disease, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA
  4. 4Department of Pathology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Christopher B Tan, ctan{at}numc.edu, bryanmd1{at}gmail.com

Cryptogenic liver abscess (CLA) is a well-known disease entity that has puzzled clinicians for centuries. With the advancement of diagnostic modalities, comes the decreasing incidence of liver abscess labelled as ‘cryptogenic’ in nature. Colonic diseases have been identified as a possible underlying condition found in patients with liver abscesses. Although rare, tubullovillous adenomas have been implicated as one of the colonic causes of a CLA. We present a case of a CLA in a 53-year-old man with a potentially associated tubullovillous adenoma found via colonoscopy.

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