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Pigtail catheter versus open surgical drainage in liver abscess management
Mahesh Kinikar1, Nitin R Nangare1, Hemchandra V Nerlekar1
1Department of Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences, Krishna Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed To Be University), Karad, Maharashtra, India.
Abstract:
Individualized treatment programs for liver abscesses are essential. Therefore it is of interest to compare and evaluate pigtail-catheter with open surgical drainage in liver abscesses. Hence, a total of 126 patients were divided randomly into 2 groups with 63 each open surgical drainage group and pigtail-catheter drainage group. We found that statistically significant difference was seen between the 2 groups for various variables. Moreover, pigtail-catheter drainage showed comparatively more effective results than open surgical drainage.

