Liver abscesses with pyopericardium: Laparoscopic management in a preterm neonate.

J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, Coimbatore, India.

Published: April 2010

We report a 28-day-old neonate presenting with signs of fever, abdominal distension, and refusal to feed. The baby was diagnosed to have multiple liver abscesses which ruptured and a tract lead to the pericardium resulting in a pyo-pericardium. Laparoscopic drainage of the abscess cavities and the pyo-pericardium was performed. An extensive search of the literature revealed that this case is the youngest one to have undergone such simultaneous laparoscopic drainage.

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