OBJECTIVES Most cases of pleural empyema are caused by pulmonary infections, which are usually combined with pneumonia or lung abscess. The mortality of patients with pleural empyema remains high (up to 20%). It also contributes to higher hospital costs and longer hospital stays. We studied pleural empyema with combined lung abscess to determine if abscess was associated with mortality. METHO...

Extra-peritoneal abscesses are uncommon entities encountered during general surgical practice. They occur in a plane present between the peritoneum and deep fascia anteriorly, posteriorly or pelvis. These commonly as result of supra-levator pre-peritoneal extension an ischiorectal abscess. Treatment includes antibiotics drainage. Here we have described case abscess anterior extra-peritoneal ext...

Introduction: Acute epiglottitis or supraglottitis is a rapidly progressing upper respiratory tract infection that can often threaten the airway patency. Epiglottic abscess that expands to the paraglottic (PGS) or preepiglottic (PES) space and acute airway obstruction constitute rare complications, exclusively presented in adults.   Case Report: We report two cases. In t...

conclusions tuberculosis is still a diagnostic challenge, especially when the presentation is atypical and extra-pulmonary. case presentation a 68-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with fever. he had splenomegaly, ascites and right-sided psoas abscess. chest x-ray was normal. although the vertebral column was intact, he had asymptomatic sacroiliitis. bony changes of the right sacroilia...

background percutaneous catheter drainage (pcd) and percutaneous needle aspiration (pna) have become the primary options for treating hepatic abscesses. thus far, various studies have examined the clinical data and computed tomography (ct) features for predicting pcd outcomes. objectives the goal was to compare ct features between hepatic abscesses classified based on strain and quantitative ou...

can cause serious opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients. Nocardial brain abscess in these patients has a high mortality. We describe a patient with brain abscess. After the abscess was evacuated at craniotomy, the patient was treated successfully with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, meropenem, and amikacin. ( J Intern Med Taiwan 2005; 16: 279-282 )

Median sternotomy is the most commonly used incision in cardiothoracic procedures. Development of breast abscess after sternotomy is a very rare situation. We present a case of sternal wound infection with recurrent bilateral breast abscess after sternotomy. Our case is the first and only case in the literature due to the presence of sternal wound infection with recurrent bilateral breast absce...

Neonatal hepatic abscess is a rare disease seen mainly in preterm following umbilical catheterisation. Liver abscess in term neonates without any predisposing factor is still rarer and only few cases have been reported in the literature. Here we report two cases of liver abscess in term neonates presenting with abdominal mass due to rupture.

A 21 year old man with a retropharyngeal abscess complained of right sided chest pain, and chest radiography and thoracocentesis revealed an empyema. A computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a posterior mediastinal abscess communicating with the right pleural cavity. Emergency thoracotomy was performed and the mediastinal abscess and empyema were drained.

BACKGROUND On an average 30-50% of patients who undergo incision and drainage (I and D) of anal abscess will develop recurrence or fistula formation. It is claimed that finding the internal orifice of anal abscess to distract the corresponding anal gland duct; will decline the rate of future anal fistula. Surgeons supporting I and D alone claim that finding the internal opening is hazardous. Th...