title: Pancreatic abscess.
abstract: Successful management of pancreatic abscess necessitates early diagnosis and prompt external surgical drainage. The infection is predominantly gram-negative and polymicrobic. Roentgenographic contrast studies are of particular diagnostic value. Prompt recognition and external drainage are associated most frequently with recovery. Multiple system organ failure is the typical pattern of death and should alert one to the possibility of occult sepsis, secondary to pancreatic abscess.
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D010182:Pancreatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D010195:Pancreatitis / Q000150:complications; D018805:Sepsis / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality