Fusobacterium necrophorum Hepatic Abscess and Colorectal Cancer

Even after identification of complications such as pulmonary embolism and infective endocarditis, with its attendant sequelae,1 no evaluation of hepatic abscess would be complete without documentation of its underlying cause. In some cases, the infection, which manifests itself as hepatic abscess, originates in the gastrointestinal tract, as shown by the case report of a 56-year-old man with Fusobacterium necrophorum hepatic abscess, and in whom the infection had originated from an ulcerating rectal carcinoma.