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PubMed1995

Successful medical treatment for staphylococcal vertebral osteomyelitis complicated by spinal epidural abscess, psoas abscess and meningitis: a case report.

A 42 year-old farmer was transferred to our hospital for recently exaggerated lower back pain. Neurological examination revealed an L4 radiculopathy on the right side. Meningitis developed after admission. MRI showed L4-5 osteomyelitis and discitis with contiguous spinal epidural abscess and right psoas abscess. Blood culture and CSF culture both grew Staphylococcus aureus. Because the patient refused to receive a drainage procedure, we gave him antibiotics which resulted in a favorable outcome.

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PubMed1995

[A case of deep neck abscess and acute mediastinitis, secondary to peritonsillar abscess].

A 60-year-old female visited a hospital complaining of fever and pharyngeal pain. She was diagnosed as peritonsillar abscess. Initial conservative treatment was not curative, and deep neck and mediastinal abscess developed. After cervical drainage, she was referred to our hospital. Drainage tube was inserted via epigastrium into anterior mediastinum upwardly under local anesthesia. Postoperative course was uneventful, and she was cured and discharged after about 1 month of hospitalization. We stressed the importance of recognition of the mediastinitis as a complication of cervical infections. And immediate drainage procedure is required as soon as the diagnosis is established.

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PubMed1983

Renal carcinoma with staghorn calculus, perinephric abscess, and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in same kidney. Subcutaneous abscess of thigh as initial presentation.

A case is reported of the simultaneous occurrence of renal carcinoma with staghorn calculus, perinephric abscess, and xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis in the same kidney, with subcutaneous abscess of the thigh as the initial presentation. The coexistence of these diseases in the same kidney would seem to be important since they are frequently confused with each other.

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PubMed2000

Ascending cholangitis as a cause of pyogenic liver abscesses complicated by a gastric submucosal abscess and fistula.

Ruptures of nonamebic (pyogenic) liver abscesses into the thorax and peritoneum are very uncommon; but, hepatoduodenal and hepatocolonic fistulas are ever more rare. We report a case where ascending cholangitis was associated with pyogenic liver abscess formation and a gastric fistula. Drainage into the stomach was demonstrated by gastroduodenal endoscopy for gastric bleeding. After fistula formation, we could successfully treat the inflammation caused by infection of Citrobacter freundii and Candida albicans with intravenous infusion of both antibiotic and antifungal agents.

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PubMed1986

Percutaneous drainage of pelvic abscesses: management of the tubo-ovarian abscess.

Percutaneous drainage of 35 pelvic abscesses secondary to pelvic inflammatory salpingitis are reported. Two methods of drainage were used: simple aspiration and catheter drainage. The success rate of aspiration drainage was 94 per cent, while catheter drainage yielded a 77 per cent success rate. The differences between pelvic abscess drainage and other types of percutaneous drainage are presented. The role of percutaneous drainage in the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease is also discussed.

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PubMed1975

[A clinical survey of brain abscess (3rd report): special reference to chronological analysis of EEG on brain abscess (author's transl)].

The attention of those concerned with the management of intracranial abscess has been largely directed to a study of the findings in clinicopathological and neuroradiological investigations. Our object, in this communication is to arouse interest in the electroencephalographic survey, especially chronological electroencephalographic study of absecess patients. The clinical material forming the basis of this study is drawn from a series of 46 consecutive cases of intracranial abscess treated, during 3 years, in the neurosurgical department of Tokyo Women's Medical College.

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PubMed1981

Peri-anal abscess--the relationship between peri-anal abscess, hepatitis B and sexual behavior.

Twenty-two patients with a peri-anal abscess or peri-anal fistula were studied selectively for the presence of HBsAg and anti-HBs. In 14 male and 8 female patients studied, the incidence of anti-HBs was 6 and of HBsAg 1. Positive findings occurred only in European male patients who invariably showed frequent homosexual contacts. It is concluded that, in homosexual patients with peri-anal abscess, the presence of HBsAg and anti-HBs should be determined as a matter of routine and all preventive measures should be taken for possible contamination with hepatitis B virus until proven negative.

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PubMed1986

Pyelonephritis, cortical abscess, and perinephric abscess.

The causative agent in nonobstructive pyelonephritis has been shown most often to be P-fimbriated Escherichia coli, mainly because receptors for these fimbriae are found in the bladder, ureter, and the kidney tubules. Age and sex are factors leading to differences in the presentation of the disease, and early diagnosis followed by intensive therapy lessens the chance of renal damage. Renal abscess, perinephric abscess, and pyonephrosis all follow pyelonephritis in the host who is compromised by the presence of stone, obstruction, diabetes, or immunosuppression.

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PubMed1987

Splenic abscess as complication of perinephric abscess.

Retroperitoneal extension of perinephric abscess with fistulization to intra-abdominal and intrathoracic structures has been well documented in the literature. Intraperitoneal rupture is much less common, and exceptionally may not present as an acute abdominal condition. We describe herein 1 such case involving the spleen. Since the extent of the disease may not be apparent radiologically, and often is only ascertained at the time of surgery, we recommend an aggressive approach to renal calculi as the most effective means of preventing complicated perinephritis.

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PubMed1998

Do amoebic liver abscesses start as large lesions? Case report of an evolving amoebic liver abscess.

Amoebic liver abscesses (ALA) are characteristically large lesions at presentation, but their development in man has not previously been described. We present a case of an ALA that over the course of 2 days developed from an undetectable lesion to a 5 cm diameter lesion. This clinical history suggests that the pathogenesis of ALAs may pursue an acute rather than a chronic course.

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PubMed2001

Amebic liver abscesses masquerading as pyemic abscesses.

We describe a 50-year-old man who presented with multiple liver abscesses that suggested biliary sepsis or portal pyemia. A wet preparation of a sample of aspirate showed the presence of amebic trophozoites, and subsequent serological testing for amebae was strongly reactive.

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Abdominal wall abscess secondary to subcapsular tubercular liver abscess.

We report a 22-year-old woman who presented with an abdominal wall lump in the right upper quadrant 15 days after starting antitubercular treatment for right pleural effusion. CT scan revealed a right liver lobe subcapsular abscess communicating vith subcutaneous tissue. Aspiration of pus revealed acid-fast bacilli. She responded to 9 months of antitubercular treatment.

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PubMed2005

[Surgical treatment of brain abscess--retrospective analysis of the group of patients with brain abscess, treated at our department in last 12 years].

The authors retrospectively evaluated group of patiens treated at the Department of neurosurgery in Hradec Králové from 10/1993 to 10/2004 with the diagnosis of brain abscess. During this period, we treated 23 patients, 15 males and 8 women with the median age 48 years. Patiens with the iatrogenic etiology and those with pyocefalus and subdural and epidural empyema were excluded from this group. We provided 45 surgical procedures with total mortality 17,4 %.

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