The Antiseptic Treatment of Hepatic Abscess

Antiseptic Treatment of Mammary Abscess

Optimal treatment of hepatic abscess.

Many treatment strategies have been proposed for pyogenic liver abscesses; however, the indications for liver resection for treatment have not been studied in a systematic manner. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the role of surgical treatment in pyogenic abscesses and to determine an optimal treatment algorithm. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all patients who had a ...

Hepatic Abscess Secondarily Infected: Penicillin Treatment

The list of organisms sensitive to penicillin 18 growing, and it is likely that some organisms 0riginally classed as non-susceptible may be brought within its sphere of influence, with 'variations in the technique of administration. The following case is of interest in that two ?f the organisms concerned have been regarded almost completely insensitive, and yet in this ^stance seem to have been...

Fish bone-induced hepatic abscess: medical treatment.

We report a case of a 59-year-old man admitted for acute myocardial infarction. He subsequently spiked a high-grade fever on the second day after percutaneous coronary intervention. Computed tomography imaging of the abdomen revealed a hepatic abscess secondary to gastrointestinal perforation by a fish bone. Medical therapy with antibiotics was preferred over surgical drainage of the hepatic ab...

Antiseptic Treatment of Necrosis

A lad about fourteen years of age, was admitted into the dispensary 9th November, 18(38, suffering from necrosis of the right tibia: numerous sinuses led down to the bone, and the limb presented a most unnatural appearance from the combined presence in it of portions of nearly two shafts of tibiae, the newly formed bone, and part of the dead one in course of absorption. The lad's general health...