Per cutaneous ultrasonic guided fine needle aspiration in the diagnosis and management of intraabdominal abscesses

Abstract EN

fine needle aspiration drainage technique of intraabdominal fluid collection and / or abscess has become the treatment of choice for the majority of the cases, regardless of etiology.

Objective : To evaluate the role of fine needle aspiration drainage technique with intra-cavitory broad spectrum antibiotic instillation as a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure for intra-abdominal abscesses and / or fluid collection.

Methods : From September 1999 to April 2000 thirty two patients presented with intra-abdominal abscesses and fluid collection was treated by ultrasonic guided per-cutaneous fine needle aspiration drainage.

Results : Complete recovery and resolution was achieved in (93.

7 %) of the cases with two failure cases which needed another surgical intervention.

Gram etiological microorganism, and (56.

3 %) of cases gave a history of previous intra-abdominal surgical intervention before symptoms started.

Conclusion: This technique was proved to be negative bacilli were found to be the most common cause of intra-abdominal abscesses cases as an a desirable approach to diagnose and treat patients with intra-abdominal abscesses and/or fluid collection.