Presentation
Ongoing pain six days post appendectomy.
Patient Data
Inferior to the cecum there is a thin walled peripherally enhancing with central low density (HU 24 ) collection. This demonstrates a locule of gas and is including with a post-operative collection.
There is inflammatory phlegmon surrounding the cecum at the site of previous appendectomy. Inflammatory fat stranding with volume of fluid tracks inferiorly into the pelvis and surrounds the sigmoid colon.
Into the right iliac fossa collection from a anterolateral approach was inserted and 8 Fr locking catheter under local anesthesia with aseptic technique. Mildly bloodstained haemoserous pus was aspirated.
Case Discussion
No growth was demonstrated on culture of the pelvic collection aspiration. The drain tube was removed two days later and the patient discharged.
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