Pyogenic liver abscesses associated with nonmetastatic colorectal cancers: An increasing problem in Eastern Asia

Table 1 Documented cases collected from the international literature

Country/region	No. of cases	No. of articles
Eastern Asia
Japan	40	36[6-10]1
China	26	6[4,5,11-14]
Korea	8	1[15]
Singapore	3	1[16]
Middle East and Europe
Israel	3	3[17-19]
Italy	2	2[20,21]
Spain	2	2[22,23]
Portugal	1	1[24]
France	1	1[25]
United Kingdom	1	1[26]
North and Central America
United States	7	7[2,27-32]
Canada	1	1[33]
Netherlands Antilles	1	1[34]
Total	96	63

¹Other 33 cases reported in a Japanese article reference were included[8].