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  • Title: [Minimally invasive treatment of abscesses by CT-controlled drainage with a basket catheter system].
    Author: Müller RD, Henrich H, Buddenbrock B, Barkhausen J, Erhard J, Langer R.
    Journal: Aktuelle Radiol; 1997 Sep; 7(5):239-42. PubMed ID: 9409995.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To examine whether the percutaneous drainage of abscess formations by a new basket catheter system is usefull. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 58 patients with abscesses in different locations and origins have been treated by an interventional radiologic procedure. On the whole 77 basket-catheters were placed under CT-guidance into abscess formations of different size and localization. 36 patients developed an abscess after surgery, two patients achieved abscess drainage after embolisation of a tumor. In 20 patients the abscess was a complication of a septic infectious disease. RESULTS: Open surgery was avoided in 41/58 patients of these patients 9/41 received only percutaneous drainage and 32/41 patients suffering from illness were given antibiotic medication according to the resistogram in combination with percutaneous drainage. 17/58 patients required secondary surgery but with a lower risk because of the smaller abscess volume and the better clinical constitution after percutaneous drainage. CONCLUSIONS: A minimally invasive management of abscesses using a basket-catheter system is successful even in localisations deep inside the body and hard to reach. An irreversible catheter occlusion followed by the implantation of a new catheter system could be avoided in all patients.
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