Ultrasonographic guided percutaneous needle aspiration and laparoscopic drainage of liver abscesses

ABSTRACT

This study included thirty patients [seventeen males and thirteen females], their ages ranged from 3 to 65 years with mean age 24.5 years. All patients were complaining of fever and Rt upper abdominal pain. The findings of this study have suggested that the medical treatment alone was attempted in patients with abscesses lesser than 2 cm, while, ultrasonographic guided percutaneous aspiration in combination with systemic antibiotics considering suitable, easy, cheep and reproducible method was used for cure abscesses from 2 to 20 cm or multiloculated abscesses