Prevalence of Colon Cancer in Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Inje University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cryptogenic Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02032914

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Although a proportion of pyogenic liver abscess may originated from colonic mucosal lesions, the prevalence of colonic neoplasm in the patients with pyogenic liver abscess are still not evaluated yet. Thus, our group will find the prevalence of colonic neoplasm in the group of cryptogenic pyogenic liver abscess by colonoscopic examination.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pyogenic liver abscess radiologically and bacteriologically diagnosed

Exclusion criteria

• Amebic liver abscess
• Other causes of pyogenic liver abscess such as cholangitis, liver cancer, complication of transarterial chemoembolization or radiofrequency ablation to hepatocellular carcinoma
• Refusal to colonoscopic examination
• Inadequate general patient status to perform the colonoscopic examination
• Patient who has had the screening colonoscopic examination within 1 year and showed normal finding or had 1 or 2 colon polyp in adequate exam

Trial design

62 participants in 1 patient group

Colonoscopic examination group

Description:

The patients diagnosed with cryptogenic pyogenic liver abscess