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Liver cell death

Organisms that carry disease can travel through the blood stream into the liver and form an abscess, a collection of infected tissue and pus.

Update Date: 6/17/2007

Updated by: Rocio Hurtado, M.D., Division of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.

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