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Within the last five decades, the epidemiology and appearance of septic abdominal processes have changed. Peptid perforations gangrene of the appendix have become infrequent causes for abscesses. Today, the majority of abdominal abscesses develop after surgery [2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 16]. Within the last decade, sonography and CT have markedly increased diagnostic possibilities [6, 8, 10, 12] and allowed the creation of new therapeutic concepts [1, 3, 4, 13, 14, 15]. On the basis of the well-known publications by Meyers [7] and Whalen [17], who investigated extensively the mechanisms of intra-abdominal spread of disease leading to specific abscess formation, this paper will focus on the consequences of modern surgery pertinent to radiologists, it is our intention to demonstrate that postoperative changes of normal anatomical barriers may cause subsequent development of abscesses in unusual or unexpected locations.
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Pokieser, H. et al. (1985). Septic Lesions of the Abdomen. In: Donner, M.W., Heuck, F.H.W. (eds) Radiology Today. Radiology Today, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69737-1_8
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