[Transpleurodiaphragmatic drainage of post-operative sub-phrenic abcesses (author's transl)]

About 19 observations, authors analyse a method for treating post-operative sub-phrenic abscesses: transpleurodiaphragmatic drainage. This study is showing the efficiency of the technic which is a real flattening of the abscess. It is showing as well its inocuosness as mortality and morbidity are none in spite of the field this treatment is used on. On the other hand this method prescribes very definite conditions: the real sub-phrenic abscess must be single and quite localized in postero-lateral position.