CASE reports of acute subpectoral abscess and suppurative lymphadenitis — or "subpectoral phlegmon," as it is sometimes called — have appeared occasionally in both the American 1–3 and the foreign 4,5 ...

UCLA researchers have found that doctors can use a specific antibiotic in addition to surgically draining an abscess to give people a better chance of recovery. The discovery turns on its head the ...

Study design: Retrospective chart review. Objectives: To document the occurrence and management of large perinephric abscesses in neurologically impaired patients at high risk for this infectious ...

For the first time, endoscopic drainage was performed in Mumbai in a HIV-positive patient who had developed liver abscess due to fungal infection. A 21-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital in Mumbai ...

Percutaneous lumbar discectomy (PLD) combined with external drainage (ED) is a new technique for the treatment of intervertebral disc infection with epidural abscess. To discuss the feasibility, ...

Using clindamycin or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) after incision and drainage of a simple abscess results in a higher cure rate than incision and drainage alone for infections with ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The usual treatment of bacterial abscesses, except lung or tubo-ovarian abscesses, includes therapeutic drainage. Increasing evidence suggests ...

Antibiotics in conjunction with incision and drainage improved short-term outcomes compared with incision and drainage alone. Patients with a simple abscess who received clindamycin or ...