SECTION I
A Historical Review

SECTION II
World distribution
Pathogenesis
Pathology
Immunology
Experimental model.

SECTION III
Plea for the re-orientation of the concept of amoebic liver abscess
General clinical features
Clinical syndromes produced by right lobe abscess
Right sided Pleuropulmonary amoebiasis
Peritonitis
Clinical syndromes produced by left lobe abscess
U.S.S.S.L.L.L.A.L.A. syndrome
Amoebic pericarditis
Left sided Pleuropulmonary amoebiasis
Multiple amoebic liver abscess

SECTION IV
Amoebic pus
Hyperbilirubinaemia in amoebic liver abscess

SECTION V
False localisation
Amoebic liver abscess in children
Amoebic liver abscess in pregnancy
Recurrent abscess
Superficial abscess
Sympathetic effusions
Solid abscess
Silent abscess
Atypical presentation
Amoebic liver abscess with portal hypertension
Cirrhosis and amoebic liver abscess
Tuberculoisis with amoebic liver abscess
Relapse, resistant or refractory abscess

SECTION VI
Uncommon complications
Differential diagnosis

SECTION VII
Medical Management
Aspiration
Open drainage and other surgical procedures
Treatment of pleuropulmonary amoebiasis

1. Problems in the diagnosis of amoebic liver abscess: illustrative cases
2. U.S. S. S.L.L.L.A.L.A. syndrome
3. Amoebic hepatitis — non entity proved by modern imaging
4. Multiple amoebic liver abscesses are more common than a single amoebic liver abscess and less serious than thought initially
5. Splenic abscess of the upper pole — a very close differential diagnosis of left lobe superior surface amoebic liver abscess
6. Amoebic osteomyelitis : an iatrogenic complication of amoebic liver abscess (1st Report in the World Literature)
7. Can you diagnose "chronic intestinal amoebiasis"?
8. Multiple amoebic liver abscesses
9. Imaging of an amoebic liver abscess
10. Are you sure it is amoebiasis and not giardiasis?

11. Non-clinical amoebiasis
12. Amoebic liver abscess
13. Surgical amoebiasis—treatment is often conservative
14. Atypical presentation of amoebic liver abscess
15. .Anamnestic reaction of blood test of IHA for amoebiasis
16. Is amoebic liver abscess a silent disease?
17. Does the entity of amoebic hepatitis exist?
18. Solid tuberculoma of the liver: a close differential diagnosis of solid amoebic liver abscess
19. Solid amoebic liver abscess
20. Does the entity of amoeboma exist