Percutaneous drainage of abscesses: a report of 100 patients.
One hundred patients had abscesses drained percutaneously in a variety of sites. Eighty-five per cent were treated successfully with a 6% mortality. There are now several large series in the literature, totalling over 250 patients with an average cure rate of over 80% and a mortality of under 5%. Percutaneous drainage of abscesses should become the treatment of choice in a vast majority of patients in whom the abscess can safely be reached.
D000038:Abscess / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis