Introduction Liver abscess is common in pediatric population in India. Children have unique set of predisposing factors and clinical features. Liver abscesses are infectious, space-occupying lesions in the liver; the two most common abscesses being pyogenic and amebic. Its severity depends on the source of the infection and the underlying condition of the patient. Materials and methods A tota...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prognosis of different ways of drainage for patients with obstructive jaundice caused by hilar cholangiocarcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the period of January 2006- March 2012, percutaneous transhepatic catheter drainage (PTCD)/ percutaneous transhepatic biliary stenting (PTBS) were performed for 89 patients. According to percutaneous transhepatic cholangiogra...

BACKGROUND Many Authors suggest that psoas abscess should initially undergo an antibiotic therapy, with or without percutaneous drainage. In their opinion, surgical drainage should be done in case of failure or complicated recurrences. Herein we report a laparoscopic drainage of a recurrent and multilocular psoas abscess. METHODS A 43-year-old woman presented to our department with a 4-week h...

INTRODUCTION Advanced malignant tumours involving the head of the pancreas, gallbladder or extrahepatic bile ducts usually lead to the development of cholestasis. In such cases improvement of the quality of life of patients can be achieved with the decompression of jaundice. Endoscopic implantation of self-expanding or (seldom) rigid plastic stents into the biliary tree constitutes the most com...

PURPOSE : To evaluate the utility and safety of drainage catheter installation for psoas/iliopsoas muscle abscesses using a one-step technique under the guidance of real-time computed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy. MATERIALS and METHODS : Ten psoas or iliopsoas muscle abscesses in 7 patients that were treated with percutaneous drainage were included in this study. All drainage procedures were car...

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Increased liver stiffness (LS) due to extrahepatic cholestasis has been reported reduce after biliary drainage. As far as we know, it not evaluated whether the method of drainage makes a difference in change until now. The aim study was answer this question. patients planned for endoscopic (EBD) or percutaneous (PBD) were enrolled over an 18-months’ time period. In those without chronic disease...

Acute pancreatitis represents a spectrum of disease ranging from a mild, self-limited course to a rapidly progressive, severe illness. The mortality rate of severe acute pancreatitis exceeds 20%, and some patients diagnosed as mild to moderate acute pancreatitis at the onset of the disease may progress to a severe, life-threatening illness within 2-3 days. The Japanese (JPN) guidelines were des...

the usefulness of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) for transrectal drainage of pelvic abscesses, its utility for performing drainage via an ileoanal reservoir (J-pouch) has not been reported before. A 28-year-old patient with a history of total colectomy and a J-pouch for ulcerative colitis presentedwith persistent fever and rectal pain. Computed tomography (CT) of the pelvis revealed an abscess mea...

BACKGROUND Malignant obstructive jaundice is a common problem in the clinic. Currently, the generally applied treatment methods are percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) and endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD). Nevertheless, there has not been a uniform conclusion published on either efficacy of the two types of drainage or the incidence rate of complications. Therefore, we conducted ...