Ultrasonically guided percutaneous catheter drainage for gallbladder empyema.
A gallbladder empyema developed in a 54-year-old, seriously ill female, suffering of a neurological affection. In this paper we describe a successful catheter drainage of this empyema under ultrasonic guidance. As far as we could trace, this has not been documented previously.
D002404:Catheterization; D004322:Drainage; D004653:Empyema / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography