title: Percutaneous drainage for post-traumatic hepatic abscess in children under ultrasound imaging.
abstract: Hepatic abscess is rare in children. A patient with a post-traumatic hepatic abscess was successfully treated by ultrasound-guided percutaneous drainage. Although he underwent a drainage operation for the perihepatic abscesses, high fever continued. It was then considered that the traumatic hematoma had been infected and had become an abscess. Sonographically-guided percutaneous aspiration is useful for the definite diagnosis of hepatic abscess. Subsequent percutaneous drainage under ultrasound imaging is a safe and useful therapeutic method even in a poor-risk patient.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yakabe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimura
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries*; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications