title: [Classical and laparoscopic therapeutic options in surgery for hepatic abscess].
abstract: Although lots of modern surgical and imaging techniques have been developed and last generation antibiotics are in use, the difficulties in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatic abscesses are still a rather sombre reality. Our research concerning 14 patients submitted to surgery within the last ten years can be thought of as a record, considering the poor number of cases in the last decades. So, our study also includes the possible clinical or imaging errors, the technical details of the surgery, the attitude towards the abscess cavity and the still obscure etiology in most of the cases. The correlation between the surgical risk and the rest of the hepatic volume, evaluated by computed scanning technique, represents another objective of this paper. In the large or in the multiple disseminated abscesses, the small area of the remaining functional hepatic tissue, was correlated to the postoperative slow or even bad evolution in two cases. The radiological, ultrasound and scanner control showing the reducing or disappearing of the abscess cavity after drainage in all the cases, represent an argument of the correct therapeutic approach.
authors.affiliation: Spitalul Universitar C.F. Witting, Clinica de Chirurgie, Facultatea de Medicina, Universitatea Titu Maiorescu, Bucureşti.
authors.forename: F D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Ungureanu
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ungurianu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ioachimescu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Debreţin
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hodrea
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pricop
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Drăgoescu
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Moldovan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014463:Ultrasonography