[Current methods of treating post-injection abscesses]

The results of treatment of 137 patients with post-injection abscesses are analysed. The specific weight of such abscesses in the general structure of purulent diseases was 10.8%. Diabetes mellitus was present in 19.7% of the patients. Seventy nine patients were treated by a conventional method. In 58 patients, the surgical treatment with the use of a drainage-irrigative system was employed. Of them, in 15 patients, the prolonged aspiration by means of the adapted VK-1 microcompressor were performed. In therapy of post-injection abscesses by a conventional method, the mean period of temporary invalidity was 37.8 days, and in surgical treatment with the use of a drainage-irrigative system--16.2 days.