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Visual diagnosis in emergency medicine| Volume 41, ISSUE 4, P397-399, October 2011

Right Atrial and Inferior Vena Caval Thrombosis in a Case of Amebic Liver Abscess

      A 58-year-old man, who was a chronic alcoholic for the previous 20 years, presented with complaints of fever and malaise of 12 days duration. There was no history of diarrhea, dysentery, or vomiting.
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