IMAGE GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS MANAGEMENT OF INTRAABDOMINAL COLLECTIONS: A HOSPITAL BASED PROSPECTIVE STUDY
SAYEED MAJID MALIK
Department of Surgery and Radio-Diagnosis, Govt. Medical College Hospital, (J&K) – 180005, India
KULBHUSHAN GUPTA *
Department of Surgery and Radio-Diagnosis, Govt. Medical College Hospital, (J&K) – 180005, India
REYAZ AHMAD WANI
Department of Surgery and Radio-Diagnosis, Govt. Medical College Hospital, (J&K) – 180005, India
PRANAV PANDOH
Department of Radio-Diagnosis, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences, Sidhra, (J&K) – 180005, India
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Intraabdominal collections are frequently encountered in clinical surgical practice and account for high number of hospital admissions. These treatable entities have good clinical outcome but with a potential of having both morbidity as well as mortality, in the event of delayed treatment. After the advent of newer radiological techniques, the conventional exploratory laparotomy has been replaced by image guided percutaneous drainage; thereby significantly reducing the morbidity as well as mortality. We in present study, report our experience of ultrasound guided percutaneous catheter drainage of intraabdominal collections. We recommend that ultrasound guided catheter drainage of intraabdominal fluid collections is the simple, cost effective, minimally invasive and avoids the administration of general anesthesia with less duration of hospital stay and it has higher success rates than conventional laparotomy.
Keywords: Laparotomy, intra-abdominal, ultrasound, anesthesia