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deep abscess
noun
An abscess originating below the deep fascia.
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X-rays, blood tests and an ultrasound revealed the problem: a deep abscess in her abdomen.
M'Lop Tapang's social workers found him on the beach, he was collecting cans and had a deep abscess in his arm.
Three weeks before the race, she was running in Portugal when she suffered a freak accident: a passing car on the gravel trails flung a stone which hit her knee joint and led to a deep abscess.
It was presumed that, as medical students, we learned how to deliver bad news through careful observation of our mentors, just as we learned how to lance a deep abscess by watching doctors and then trying it ourselves.
More specifically, these were: purulent drainage from the deep incision; deep abscess formation; fascial dehiscence either by the infection or during reoperation; or deep infection in the presence of a metallic implant around bone [5].
Although it can cause a variety of clinical syndromes such as bacteremia, pneumonia, endocarditis, and deep abscess formation, S. aureus seems to be omnipresent and is more often than not carried without any clinical symptoms.
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For deep abscesses, the liver can be split along its intersegmental planes to expose the pseudocapsule for enucleation.
Accordingly, we observed postoperative deep abscesses most commonly (four cases out of seven occurrences) in the pericaecal region (Fig. 5), sometimes in the right parietocolic gutter and/or ipsilateral subphrenic space (Fig. 6), or occupying the pelvic inlet or Douglas' pouch (Fig. 7).
This can lead to "gangrenous skin, deep abscesses, and loss of limbs".
Superficial and deep abscesses were combined so that there were 5 events.
Superficial and deep abscesses accounted for the majority of infections (34% and 17%, respectively), and were strongly associated with a survival benefit (p<0.001 and p = 0.004, respectively).
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