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J R Soc Med. 1983 April; 76(4): 256–261. | PMCID: PMC1438951 |
Radiological management of abdominal abscess. D P Mac Erlean and R G Gibney Abstract Forty-two abdominal and retroperitoneal abscesses were drained percutaneously under ultrasound guidance. A success rate of 85.7% was achieved. Subsequent surgery was required in only 5 patients. Postoperative and spontaneous abscesses did equally well. Most intra-abdominal and retroperitoneal abscesses are amenable to this form of percutaneous drainage. The procedure requires only local anaesthesia and is well tolerated. Surgical management should probably now be reserved for those cases which are considered unsuitable for percutaneous drainage or which fail to resolve following this procedure. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (655K), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Links to PubMed are also available for Selected References. These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article. - Berger LA, Osborne DR. Treatment of pyogenic liver abscesses by percutaneous needle aspiration. Lancet. 1982 Jan 16;1(8264):132–134. [PubMed]
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