A Case of the Greater Omentum Abscess due to <I>Peptostreptococcus</I> ssp

• TSUJIMOTO Masayuki

  Department of Internal Medicine, Heisei Memorial Hospital

• NAKATANI Yasuhiro

  Department of Internal Medicine, Heisei Memorial Hospital

• YAMAMOTO Masatoshi

  Department of Surgery, Heisei Memorial Hospital

• HAMADA Kaoru

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

• MAEDA Kouichi

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

• KONISHI Mitsuru

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

• MIKASA Keiichi

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

• SAWAKI Masayoshi

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

• NARITA Nobuhiro

  Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara Medical University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• <I>Peptostreptococcus</I> spp.による原発性大網膿瘍の1例
• A Case of the Greater Omentum Abscess due to Peptostreptococcus ssp

Abstract

A case of the greater omentum abscess due to Peptostreptococcus ssp. is reported.<BR>A 63-year-old male was admitted to Heisei Memorial Hospital with a complaint of abdominal pain. An intraperitoneal mass measuring 6 cm in diameter was detected by CT and ultrasonogram.<BR>He was diagnosed as having an intraperitoneal abscess. After antibiotics therapy by cefotiam, laparotomy was performed and an abcess about 7 cm in diameter at the edge of the greater omentum was found. There was no evidence of perforation in the intestine wall. The abscess was removed and Peptostreptoccocus spp. was isolated from the dark red pus drained from the abscess.

Journal

• Kansenshogaku Zasshi

  Kansenshogaku Zasshi 70 (5), 512-515, 1996

  The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

Keywords

• omentum abscess
• <I>Peptostreptococcus</I> spp.

Details

• CRID: 1390282680023146240
• NII Article ID: 130004330475
• NII Article ID: 10008723175
• NII Book ID: AN00047715
• DOI: 10.11150/kansenshogakuzasshi1970.70.512
• COI: 1:STN:280:DyaK283osFSgtQ%3D%3D
• ISSN: 1884569X
• ISSN: 03875911
• PubMed: 8699102
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1996228239
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