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Endoscopically drained abdominal abscess compressing the sigmoid

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Intra-abdominal abscesses (IAA) complicate numerous medical and surgical pathologic conditions. Accurate radiological diagnosis combined with percutaneous or surgical drainage and antibiotics is the current standard of care for IAA. We herein report a case of a 52-year-old woman with a 10-day history of fever and abdominal pain. An intra-abdominal abscess externally compressing the sigmoid was revealed and successfully drained during colonoscopy.

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  1. Hepatogastroenterology Unit, 2nd Department of Internal Medicine and Research Unit, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University General Hospital, 1 Rimini Street, 12462, Haidari, Greece

    Dimitrios Polymeros, Athanasios D. Sioulas, Zacharias Tsiamoulos & Konstantinos Triantafyllou

  2. 2nd Department of Radiology, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University General Hospital, 1 Rimini Street, 12462, Haidari, Greece

    Christina Kontopoulou

  3. 4th Department of Internal Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Attikon University General Hospital, 1 Rimini Street, 12462, Haidari, Greece

    Efthymia Giannitsioti

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Polymeros, D., Sioulas, A.D., Tsiamoulos, Z. et al. Endoscopically drained abdominal abscess compressing the sigmoid. Indian J Gastroenterol 31, 346–348 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-012-0196-y

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