Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sakurai, Atsunobu
• Uka, Mayu
• Iguchi, Toshihiro
• Tomita, Koji
• Matsui, Yusuke
• Kakiuchi, Yoshihiko
• Kuroda, Shinji
• Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi
• Hiraki, Takao

Titel

Omental Abscess after Laparoscopic Proximal Gastrectomy Successfully Treated with Percutaneous Drainage

Ist Teil von

• Acta medica Okayama, 2023-12, Vol.77 (6), p.665

Ort / Verlag

Japan

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We report the case details of a 65-year-old Japanese man with an omental abscess that was discovered 43 days after he underwent a laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy for gastric cancer. His chief complaint was mild abdominal pain that had persisted for several days. The abscess was diagnosed as a rare postoperative complication. We hesitated to perform a reoperation given the invasiveness of general anesthesia and surgery, plus the possibility of postoperative adhesions and because the patient's general condition was stable and he had only mild abdominal pain. Percutaneous drainage using a 10.2-F catheter was performed with the patient under conscious sedation and computed tomography-fluoroscopy guidance, with no complications. After the procedure, the size of the abscess cavity was remarkably reduced, and 23 days later the catheter was withdrawn.