Liver Abscess Secondary to Ingestion of Chicken Bone

Abstract

Ingestion of foreign bodies is very common in routine clinical practice. They are usually secreted spontaneously, but in a small percentage they cause complications such as gastrointestinal perforations that can migrate causing abscesses. Given the nonspecific symptoms of these patients, it is important to take an anamnesis and complete the clinical suspicion with radiological tests (CT), requiring exploratory laparotomy for definitive diagnostic confirmation.