Diagnosis and treatment of splenic abscess
Utkin, V.V.; Iudin, M.I.; Liepi'nsh, M.A.; Rubene, M.I.; Ribenieks, R.R.
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova 142(4): 88-91
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4625 PMID: 2678704 Document Number: 328328
Eight patients with abscesses of the spleen were observed. The clinical picture had no special characteristics. Splenomegaly was not a pathognomonic symptom of the spleen abscess. The ultrasonic investigation and computed tomography were the main methods of diagnostics. The timely treatment of the spleen abscesses gives satisfactory results. The operation of choice is thought to be splenectomy.