Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has become the ‘gold standard’ for symptomatic gallstones. Although the overall complication rate after LC is less than the traditional open approach, intra-abdominal abscesses following LC are rarely encountered. Also, intra-operative stone spillage and dropping of the surgical clips do occur. An abscess secondary to a dropped surgical clip is an uncommon even...

The clinical manifestations of ileocecal tumor are complicated and diverse, targeted therapy cannot be carried out without timely and definitive diagnosis, and the best operation time may be missed. Here, we report a 64-year old female patient who was admitted due to “an abscess in the low-right abdomen and formation of a sinus tract in the abdominal wall for 5 months”. She was repeatedly trans...

INTRODUCTION A paradoxical reaction during antituberculosis treatment is defined as the worsening of pre-existing tuberculosis lesions or the appearance of a new tuberculosis lesion in patients whose clinical symptoms improved with antituberculosis treatment. The median onset time to the development of a paradoxical response has been reported to be about 60 days after the start of treatment. We...

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.

INTRODUCTION Splenic Angioembolization (SAE), during Nonoperative Management (NOM) of Blunt Splenic Injury (BSI), is an effective therapy for hemodynamically stable patients with grade III, IV, and V OIS splenic injuries. We report a case of a patient with a blunt abdominal trauma due to an accidental fall, who presented splenic abscess a week after SAE and a review of the literature. CASE RE...

BACKGROUND Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is among the most reported serotypes of Salmonella species worldwide, but is rarely reported as the causative agent of a liver abscess. CASE REPORT We present a patient with an abdominal blunt trauma. An initial abdominal computed tomography scan revealed a rupture of the right kidney and of the liver. Two days later, his physical state deter...

conclusions: the study findings revealed that peritoneal lavage with imipenem solution (1 mg/ml) decreases the rate of post-operative ssis in patients with perforated appendicitis in comparison to patients irrigated with normal saline alone. these patients also had shorter hospital stay, and lower hospital costs. results: imipenem solution irrigation was associated with significant clinical imp...

background: pelvic inflammatory disease is one of the most serious infection and one of the important and life threatening complications of it is tubo-ovarian abscess. this infection with intrauterine insemination (iui) is rare. we report a case of ruptured tubo- ovarian abscess after (iui). case: a 27 years old woman was referred to our center with acute abdominal pain and fever one week after...