Pyogenic liver abscess: Clinical features and microbiological profiles in tertiary care center.

ne for infection.[ 19 ] There are many predisposing factors for PLA such as biliary tract disease, portal pyemia, malignancy, or contiguous spread of infection from intraabdominal organs.[ 3 , 9 ] Biliary tract diseases account for 50%–60% of all cases.[ 9 ] But, newer studies suggest that there is an increasing trend of cryptogenic PLA.[ 3 , 20 , 21 , 22 ] All twenty-five cases (100%) in our study were cryptogenic in nature which was in confirmation with these studies.

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