Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (Mar 2023)

A novel technique for the non-surgical management of inadvertent bowel catheterization during percutaneous abscess drainage: a technical note

  • Okan Akhan,
  • Duygu İmre Yetkin,
  • Ferdi Çay,
  • Emre Ünal,
  • Türkmen Turan Çiftçi,
  • Devrim Akıncı

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5152/dir.2022.211104
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 2
pp. 309 – 311

Abstract

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Percutaneous abscess drainage-related inadvertent bowel catheterization is an undesired complication that requires treatment. In two cases without signs of peritonitis that we examined, it was possible to achieve successful abscess drainage, and to treat abscess-related inadvertent bowel catheterization by using a novel technique without surgery.

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