A Case of Successful Percutaneous Drainage of a Pelvic Abscess Complicating Colonoscopy

Autor:	Seung Bong Choi, Seung Tack Oh, Hyun Min Cho, Youn Si, In Kyu Lee, Yoon Suk Lee, Jun Gi Kim, Shin Young Kim, Hyung-Jin Kim
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Surgical repair medicine.medical_specialty Percutaneous medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General surgery Perforation (oil well) Gastroenterology Colonoscopy Peritonitis medicine.disease Pelvic abscess Surgery medicine Drainage business Abscess
Zdroj:	Journal of the Korean Society of Coloproctology. 25:347
ISSN:	1229-8670
DOI:	10.3393/jksc.2009.25.5.347
Popis:	Perforations that occur during colonoscopy are usually managed by surgical repair. When the patient’s symptoms are mild and laboratory findings show minor abnormalities, a conservative treatment can be considered. Although an operation is the treatment of choice in patients with generalized peritonitis, in some selected patients, percutaneous abscess drainage can be an alternative to surgical intervention for drainage of deep-infected fluid collections or can act as a temporary measure until the patient becomes sufficiently stable for surgery. We report here on a 53-yr-old male patient who developed signs of localized peritonitis and had a pelvic abscess due to a colonic perforation after colonoscopy and was treated successfully by using percutaneous abscess drainage.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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