Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift für alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
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61 patients with abdominal abscesses and fluid collections as a postoperative complication underwent percutaneous drainage. 60 abscesses, 11 haematomas, 3 steril seromas and 3 bile collections were drained. The fluid collections were associated with biliary or enteric fistulae in 16 cases. ⋯ The overall mortality rate was 13%. Reasons for drainage failure were infected clots, phlegmonic abscesses and pancreas involvement of the abscesses.
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Case Reports
[Abdominal intercostal nerve pain. A contribution to differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain].
Intercostal nerves and their vascular supply can be impinged in a fascial gap of the m.rectus abdominalis and cause neural pain simulating visceral symptoms. The diagnosis is based on clinical symptoms and proven by histological demonstration of cicatricial impingement of an intercostal nerve. The disease can be cured by simple resection of the impinged nerve.