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MeSH Heading: Liver Abscess, Pyogenic
Tree Number(s): C01.830.025.020.455.730; C06.552.597.758
Unique ID: D046290
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D046290
Annotation: coordinate IM with specific organism infection term (IM)
Scope Note: Single or multiple areas of PUS due to bacterial infection within the hepatic parenchyma. It can be caused by a variety of BACTERIA, local or disseminated from infections elsewhere such as in APPENDICITIS; CHOLECYSTITIS; PERITONITIS; and after LIVER TRANSPLANTATION.
Entry Term(s): Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess; Pyogenic Liver Abscess
Previous Indexing: Liver Abscess (1966-2004)
Public MeSH Note: 2005
History Note: 2005
Date Established: 2005/01/01
Date of Entry: 2004/07/07
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Liver Abscess, Pyogenic MeSH Descriptor Data 2025