Postoperative abscess mimicked by surgicel

✍ Scribed by Turley, B. R. ;Taupmann, R. E. ;Johnson, P. L.

• Book ID: 104660045
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 246 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2366-004X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00198195

✦ Synopsis

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a very common surgery in many hospitals today. Thrombogenic agents are important for visualization, especially since the gallbladder fossa is a difficult bleeding source to control. Surgicel, oxidized regenerated cellulose, is a bioabsorbable thrombogenic which given the proper clinical context can be indistinguishable from an abscess on postoperative CT scans.