Management of pyogenic liver abscesses - Percutaneous or open drainage?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1158-1165

  Chung, Y F Alexander ^a   Tan, Y M ^a   Lui, H F ^b   Tay, K H ^b   Lo, R H G ^b   Kurup, A ^b   Tan, B H ^b  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Department of Diagnostic Radiology ^*

Author keywords

Interventional radiography; Laparoscopy; Percutaneous drainage; Pyogenic liver abscess; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BILE DUCT STONE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER RESECTION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONITIS; PYOGENIC LIVER ABSCESS; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; AGED; ENDOSCOPY; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGED; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DRAINAGE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS, PYOGENIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 38449097981     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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