Gastroent Hepat Barc
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December 1998
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Gastroent Hepat Barc · Dec 1998
[Incidence and clinical features of splenic abscesses, with special reference to tuberculous etiology in a general hospital].
The aim of this revision is to know the incidence of splenic abscess (SA) in our hospital, its etiology, with special reference to tuberculosis, and clinical characteristics. ⋯ From the total of splenic abscess, 41.1% were tuberculous, six with AIDS and one with Sjögren syndrome. Diabetes and malignant neoplasms were the commonest underlying illnesses in the non-tuberculous. In these, clinical presentation consisted in fever and upper-left abdominal pain. In patients with tuberculous splenic abscess, the main complaint was weight loss. A prompt treatment is generally succesful.