[Clinical contribution to the topic of subphrenic abscess]

The authors exam 8 subfrenic abscesses cases observed in the last 5 years in Fatebenefratelli Hospital of Milano - Emergency Surgical Department. After considering etiologic, clinical and therapeutic aspects of their casuistry, they remark the importance of the basal illness, particularly in secondary subfrenic abscesses which are the most part in their series and in the literature ones. In this series of cases they always used trans-abdominal laparatomy which never gave technical problems, so they underline it may be preferable in comparison with other surgical methods.