REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Incisional drainage and suppuration occurs commonly following exploratory laparotomy; any technique with the potential to reduce the incidence of this complication warrants investigation. OBJECTIVES To determine if abandoning the use of subcutaneous sutures in laparotomy wound closure is safe and whether it reduces the risk of suppuration. METHODS A randomised c...

This paper focuses on Lister’s inaugural lecture at King’s College, London, in October 1877. As the new Professor of Clinical Surgery, Lister had much to report, including impressively high survival rates from complex operations previously regarded as foolhardy. Instead, he chose to address the processes of fermentation in wine, blood and milk. His reasons are not obvious to a modern audience, ...

Various treatments have been used to decrease the risk of suppuration; the most troublesome complication of Calmette-Guerin bacillus adenitis, but results are controversial. Metaanalysis of four randomized controlled trials revealed no significant difference in the frequency of suppuration between the treatment and control groups for all treatments [relative risk (RR), 1.10; 95% confidence inte...

In order to evaluate the importance of suppuration, persistent infection, and scar formation in the evolution of Escherichia coli chronic pyelonephritis, we treated rats with different antibiotic regimens at different stages of the disease. The results show that (a) if acute suppurative pyelonephritis is aborted with early antibiotic therapy, chronic pyelonephritis is prevented; (b) chronic pye...

LEUROPULMONARY L E S I O N S NEXT TO P t h e liver are the most common extraintedinal manifestations of amebiasis. Since the original reports by Collin and Nixon' and Opie,' a good number of accounts based on clinical and necropsy data have appeared in the literature. In the majority of cases, pulmonary involvement is secondaxy to hepatic involvement. In approximately 75 per cent of the case$ t...

Because of its rarity and unusual features, the diagnosis of suppuration in the thyroid gland is often delayed. Progress to abscess formation may then occur, with all the inherent dangers of advanced suppuration in the neck. Should an abscess form, surgical excision of the diseases tissue is the management of choice.

Bombay Ophthalmic ajDpointment give his opinion that, whatever we do, we cannot altogether exclude suppuration in cataract work A definite responsibility for infective losses must be faced."?Colonel Herbert, Indian Medical Gazette, January 1917. " With me suppurations are too frequent. There is a standing reward of Rs. 10 for a hundred consecutive cases without a suppuration. This goes to the d...