CASE REPORT A 73 year old man presented with loss of mobility, anorexia, weight loss and pain in the left hip. Recent investigation of altered bowel habit had shown extensive diverticular disease of the sigmoid colon. On examination he was cachectic, dehydrated and pyrexic. There was redness, increased temperature, swelling and crepitus in the left groin with fixed flexion deformity and painful...

We describe three cases of acute pyogenic abscess of the iliopsoas in children treated conservatively. Two patients had image-guided aspiration and one was managed with antibiotics alone. All made a complete recovery. Acute pyogenic abscess of the iliopsoas in children can be treated effectively and safely with intravenous antibiotics and image-guided aspiration of the abscess.

Spondylodiscitis caused by Campylobacter species is a rare disease which is most often caused by Campylobacter fetus. We report a case of culture-negative spondylodiscitis and a psoas abscess due to Campylobacter jejuni in a 68-year-old woman, as revealed by 16S rRNA gene and Campylobacter-specific PCRs from biopsied tissue.

We present a case of iliopsoas abscess in an immunocompetent patient. She experienced three weeks of worsening right hip pain, which was initially misdiagnosed as degenerative joint disease. This led to admission to the Intensive Care Unit for severe sepsis. The patient improved with intravenous antibiotics and percutaneous abscess drainage.

A 66-year-old lady presented with 4 months history of intermittent fever, epigastric pain which radiated to the back. She reported no symptoms of diarrhoea or constipation. She did not smoke and had no history of alcohol intake. She was premorbidly independent. Her blood pressure was 123/62 mmHg, pulse 90 beats per minute and she was febrile. Abdominal examination revealed epigastric and perium...

Ilio-psoas abscess (IPA) is rare in children and exceptional in the neonate. However, we recently managed two consecutive male neonates with right-sided IPA. The first baby was born two days after rupture of the membranes and had thick meconium-stained amniotic fluid. There was no such high risk factor in the second child. Diagnosis was made by ultrasonography in both the patients. Extraperiton...

We report a case of a 38-yearold woman who presented with right lower quadrant abdominal pain and occasional fevers, five weeks after radical abdominal hysterectomy and pelvic node dissection for cervical carcinoma. After initial empirical antibiotic treatment failure, a decision was made to proceed with percutaneous drainage of a right psoas abscess. The antibiotic regimen was adjusted accordi...

Background: Abscess, an infection with viable infecting organisms and polymorphonuclear cells, contained within a fibrous capsule, limiting the infection, preventing its further spread. It may be monomicrobial or polymicrobial. Aims Objectives: The aims of study were to determine microbiological profile abscesses different body sites associated complications. Materials Methods: An observational...

INTRODUCTION Only ten cases of primary pyogenic spondylitis following vertebroplasty have been reported in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first reported case of primary pyogenic spondylitis and spondylodiscitis caused by kyphoplasty. CASE PRESENTATION A 72-year old Caucasian man with an osteoporotic compression fracture of the first lumbar vertebra after kyphopla...

Ultrasound examinations were done to evaluate clinically palpable abdominal masses in 125 children. The examinations were normal in 21 patients. In 15 patients, the clinically palpable masses were actually anterior abdominal wall abscesses or hematomas. Final diagnosis was available in 87 of 89 patients with intraabdominal masses detected on ultrasound. The majority (71%) were retroperitoneal m...