Treatment of complicated acute appendicitis is controversial. The dilemma is further complicated by presence of free fecalith in a well-circumscribed abscess, which has been repeatedly demonstrated to ...

Citrobacter species are an unusual cause of cerebral abscess in infant. In particular, Citrobacter freundii can invade and replicate in human brain microvascular endothelial cells with a selective ...

Introduction: Acute epidural abscess after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy is a rare but grievous complication. When faced with a long-segment epidural abscess, open surgery has ...

1 Second Department of Spinal Surgery, The Second People’s Hospital of Liaocheng, The Second Hospital of Liaocheng Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Linqing, Shandong, China 2 Medical ...

A lung abscess is a region in the lung that becomes necrotic due to infection. An abscess forms in the actual lung tissue called the parenchyma. There are two categories of lung abscess, primary and ...

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan. Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is caused by infection ascending from the vagina to the reproductive ...

Pelvic abscess occurred spontaneously in 13 patients and secondary to surgical manipulation in 7 patients. In the 13 patients with spontaneous abscess, 7 had undergone pelvic surgery and 2 had ...

Paris Jackson underwent surgery on Friday, August 10, and endured the most pain she has ever experienced in her life. That’s because the 20-year-old was awake as doctors extracted an abscess “almost ...

Chennai, Aug 23: A surgery has been conducted on a 10-year old 'rock python,' for removal of a "big sized abscess" at the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences (TANUVAS) here. Chennai, Aug 23: A ...

Rhonda Powers, left, as of July of this year, compared to her on Oct. 16, during a hospital visit for an abscess on the left side of her face she says 'ballooned' in a matter of weeks. (Submitted by ...