title: Drainage of intraabdominal abscesses. Tactics and choices.
abstract: The experience in treating 44 intraabdominal abscesses in 30 patients using percutaneous or surgical drainage was analyzed. Ultrasonography or computerized tomography-guided percutaneous drainage was highly satisfactory for the definitive treatment of single, accessible collections. Complex, multilocular, and phlegmonous lesions can also be treated by percutaneous drainage as a temporizing measure. Abscesses that are inaccessible, contain large amounts of necrotic material or are ill-defined, as well as those that have not responded to percutaneous drainage, require surgical exploration. Using these principles, there was only one death from sepsis in this series and three significant complications.
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage / Q000009:adverse effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014465:Ultrasonics