Intraabdominal Abscess after Acupuncture

Autor:	Rodney C. Studd, Peter J. Stewart
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Genitourinary system business.industry Abdominal Abscess General Medicine Cubic Millimeter Epigastric pain Intraabdominal abscess Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure medicine Acupuncture Abdomen Presentation (obstetrics) business
Zdroj:	New England Journal of Medicine. 350:1763-1763
ISSN:	1533-4406 0028-4793
DOI:	10.1056/nejmicm010431
Popis:	A 64-year-old Korean woman had a four-week history of dull pain in the lower abdomen that was worse on movement; she had no gastrointestinal or urogenital symptoms. The previous year, the patient had regularly undergone abdominal acupuncture with the use of gold-tipped needles to treat dyspeptic epigastric pain. The last treatment was two weeks before presentation. In the two days before presentation, the pain had worsened and localized in the suprapubic region. On examination, the patient's temperature was 37.6°C and her abdomen was tender in the suprapubic region. The white-cell count was 15,800 per cubic millimeter. A plain abdominal film . . .
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