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Mindy Weisberger

Diagnostic dilemma: A fish bone wandered through a man's abdomen and stabbed his liver

Ct scan of a person's abdomen shown from the top down.

The patient: A 45-year-old man in Saudi Arabia

The symptoms: The patient went to the hospital after experiencing 10 days of gut pain and fever. Doctors performed an ultrasound of the man's abdomen and found an abscess — a pus-filled mass — in the right lobe of his liver. They drained the abscess and gave the patient a 10-day course of antibiotics. His fever subsided, and the man was sent home.

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