A 54-year-old female with HIV, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presented with altered mental status, diabetic ketoacidosis, nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms, and a buttock abscess. Initial abdominal and pelvic computed tomography (CT) without contrast demonstrated a small pericardial effusion, air in the gastric wall, and perianal abscess. Amid worsening leukocyt...

We present a case on abdominal wall abscess from spilled stones post-cholecystectomy and describe laparoscopic drainage as our choice of management. Mr M is a 75-year-old male who presented on multiple occasions to the hospital with right upper quadrant pain and fever post-laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He also required multiple courses of antibiotics. Subsequent computed tomography and magnetic...

INTRODUCTION Stenotrophomonas maltophilia usually causes nosocomial infections, but intraabdominal abscesses or organ/space surgical site infection (SSI) secondary to this organism has been rarely reported. Here, we reported a rare case of SSI that presented as intraabdominal abscess caused by S. maltophilia. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 68-year-old woman presented to our hospital with transverse c...

Peritoneal pregnancy may cause severe abdominal bleeding without genital bleeding as early as the fifth week of gestation. Awareness that pregnancy can exist in unusual locations is imperative.

A 72-year-old man consulted in November 2012 for abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. The patient had a history of suspected hepatic amebiasis treated in Senegal in 1985 and has not traveled to endemic areas since 1990. Abdominal CT scan revealed a liver abscess. At first, no parasitological tests were performed and the patient was treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Only after fail...

background: appendectomy is the most common emergency operation performed in the world. this study aimed to compare complication of simple legation of the appendix with purse string diving appendectomy. methods: randomized clinical trial designed 361 patients who had underwent appendectomy during 2008 and 2009 in imam reza and taleghani hospitals, kermanshah, iran, were included. those patients...

Psychological and anamnestic data from 308 patients were collected to investigate whether patients with abdominal complaints from organic causes could be distinguished psychologically or by their case histories from patients with functional abdominal complaints. Two years later the same patients took part in a follow up study. Only 9% of the patients with functional abdominal complaints became ...

We describe here a case of abdominal abscesses due to Mycobacterium fortuitum following liposuction. The abscesses developed three months after the procedure and diagnosis was delayed for five months. The clues for diagnosis were persistent pus discharge in spite of broad spectrum antibiotics and failure to grow any organisms on routine culture. This condition has been rarely reported; however,...

INTRODUCTION A meta-analysis of the literature suggests there is an increased rate of intra-abdominal abscess after laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) compared with open appendectomy (OA). METHODS To analyze the infectious complications of LA at one tertiary care centre, we completed a retrospective chart review for all patients undergoing LA for acute appendicitis from 1995 to 2002. RESULTS We...