Doctors may be able to treat spinal abscesses with antibiotics. However, some people may need a combination of antibiotic treatment and surgical drainage. Back pain and tenderness may worsen as ...

Clinical presentation of lactational breast abscess usually includes fever, chills, malaise, and recent or recurrent mastitis. Pain, erythema, and firmness over an area of the breast are typically ...

Conclusion There is a clear difference between children and infants with brain abscess in terms of predisposing factors, causative organisms and outcome. Despite surgical drainage and directed ...

Medically reviewed by Brendan Camp, MD Acne (Acne vulgaris) is a common skin condition that presents as pimples on the body ...

Intravenous antibiotics are essential in the management of lung abscesses. Consideration should be given to percutaneous drainage in situations where there is minimal improvement after 72 hours of ...

The spectrum of involvement includes prominent perianal skin tags, fissures, ulcers, abscesses ... seton sutures that allow for continued open drainage of purulence. It is important to use ...

Likewise, an oral antibiotic, such as cephalexin, may be used to treat mastitis or nonpurulent cellulitis (cellulitis with no drainage of pus and no associated abscess). Intravenous antibiotics, such ...

A woman in her late 30s presented with a painful lump beneath her caesarean section skin scar, worsening during menstruation. Despite a previous incision and drainage procedure for a ‘scar abscess’, ...

CONSTANT DRAINAGE ISSUES. IT’S PLAGUING NEW ORLEANS, AND IT HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR YEARS WITH MANY POINTING FINGERS ON WHO IS AT FAULT. BUT IT HAS BEEN A LONG ROAD FOR US TO EVEN GET TO THIS POINT.

The abscess fills with foul-smelling pus. The pain of an infected pilonidal cyst is ... The next level of treatment is incision and drainage. This is also done using local anesthesia and may be ...