[Acute epigastric pain after travel to the tropics. Emergency admission of a 28-year-old stewardess].

A 28-year-old stewardess was admitted to hospital with violent cramp-like pain in the right upper abdomen, which was accompanied by a single episode of watery pasty diarrhea. Over the next few days her symptoms persisted, she developed a high fever, and her general state of health deteriorated. Ultrasonography repeated on the fourth day then revealed a small space-consuming lesion in the right lobe of the liver. While the laboratory investigations initially remained negative, the suspected amebic abscess and colitis were subsequently also confirmed serologically.