Adding intraperitoneal paclitaxel to intravenous paclitaxel plus oral S-1 improved overall survival in patients with gastric cancer and peritoneal metastasis, extending median survival to 19.4 months ...

Bacterial and parasitic agents can cause liver abscess (LA), and spontaneous rupture of a pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) represents an exceedingly rare but life-threatening event. Upon abscess rupture, ...

Retained appendicoliths are an uncommon but clinically relevant complication of appendectomy, particularly in cases of perforated appendicitis. Migration of the appendicolith into the peritoneal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Infection rates stayed within International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis guideline thresholds during the ...

Abdominal (peritoneal) drainage may not be better than abdominal surgery (laparotomy) in treating premature babies with very low birth weight who develop severe inflammation or holes in their ...

1. Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, USA. 2. Department of Interventional Radiology, Rochester Regional Health, New York, USA. Secondary bacterial peritonitis is ...

To the Editor: My practice started in 1909 and has included about 16 cases of abscess of the peritoneum that were opened in the patient's own home. This does not sound like very many and seems small ...

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A pyogenic liver abscess is a pus-filled sac in the liver that occurs due to infection or injury. Treatment involves antibiotics to address the infection. Drainage may also be necessary to help ...

Onvansertib in Combination With Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab in Second-Line Treatment of KRAS-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Single-Arm, Phase II Trial This was a multicenter randomized phase ...