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  • Title: [Percutaneous ultrasound-controlled drainage of liver abscesses].
    Author: Egender G, Riedler L.
    Journal: Chirurg; 1984 Dec; 55(12):822-7. PubMed ID: 6394230.
    Abstract:
    By means of 20 liver abscesses in fourteen patients it is described how percutaneous drainage of abscesses can be applied. Method, technique, indications, contraindications as well as possible complications of this procedure are described and illustrated in four cases. In addition both principal differences and common features of percutaneous sonographic drainage and incision of the abscess are described. It is also stated which method is to be preferred in the individual case.
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