Sixty patients suspected of having abdominal abscesses were evaluated by early and delayed 67Ga scintigraphy. The 67Ga scintigraphs obtained 6 hr after injection correctly localized 18 of 20 abdominal or retroperitoneal abscesses. An additional 13 patients with abnormal scintigraphs had clinically established infections. In no instance was an abscess or inflammatory focus present on delayed sci...

The case of the " Missing Forceps " has been quickly followed by that of the " Overlooked Sponge," which has recently been tried by Mr. Justice Bruce and a special jury. The operator on this occasion was a lady doctor Miss Mary Thorne, M.D., f.r.c.s.i. The patient underwent the operation of laparotomy for pelvic abscess in a surgical home and for a time appeared to have been quite restored to h...

OBJECTIVE To see yield of ultrasound guided percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses. SETTING Department of General Surgery Unit I, Lahore General Hospital and North Surgical Unit, Mayo Hospital, Lahore. DESIGN A prospective case-controlled study. SUBJECTS Patients with spontaneous or post operative abdominal abscesses. RESULTS Overall success rate was 96.2%, major complications 11....

Pyogenic liver abscess is an uncommon complication of intra-abdominal or biliary tract infection and is usually a polymicrobial infection associated with high mortality and high rates of relapse. However, over the past 15 years, we have observed a new clinical syndrome in Taiwan: liver abscesses caused by a single microorganism, Klebsiella pneumoniae. We reviewed 182 cases of pyogenic liver abs...

The fate of gallstones spilled during laparoscopic cholecystostomy has been thought to be relatively benign. Recent experience and a review of the recent literature shows that this is not always the case. We report three cases of complications of retained stones and analyse the literature with regard to types of complications, time to presentation, and recommendations for managing spilled galls...

UNLABELLED Tuberculous splenic abscess in an immunocompetent patient is extremely rare. We came across a case of middle aged immunocompetent female who presented with abdominal distension, weight loss, and low grade fever. Abdominopelvic computed tomography showed multiple low density lesions in the spleen with ascites. Interferon-gamma release assay was positive and adenosine deaminase level o...

Materials and methods We present the case of an 84-year-old woman, affected by essential thrombocythemia, monoclonal gammopathy and senile dementia, who was admitted in our Hospital for abdominal pain and high white blood cells levels. An abdominal CT scan showed splenic infarctual abscess and a broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy was arranged. Because of the unfavourable clinical evolution, a la...

splenic abscess is not a common condition and actinomyces as a cause is very rarely reported. we report a case of actinomycosis of spleen in a 12 year-old boy, with a few days history of abdominal pain and fever. past medical history was not significant. due to sever abdominal pain and tenderness condition laparatomy was done that a small perforated area was seen on hilum of spleen, so splenect...