aspiration yielded a dry tap. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was acquired to further assess the patient's condition. These studies showed an 8-x 4-cm abscess in the right psoas muscle and an ...

As far as we know, psoas abscess associated with pyogenic ... was cultured from abscess liquid obtained by CT- guided aspiration for evacuation of the abscess. As the organism was multiresistant ...

Infection arising from the spinal epidural abscess can also result in infectious complications that may be systemic (such as endocarditis) or local (such as vertebral osteomyelitis and psoas ...

Abscess in lateroconal fascial plane and in psoas muscle. Psoas abscess (blue arrow), and abscess dissecting anteriorly in transversalis fascia. Abscess in psoas muscle, iliacus, and subfascial to ...

Primary psoas abscess occurs when bacteria such as Staph bacteria get into the muscle, creating an area of inflammation and infection which often fills with fluid, including pus. • Today, it is more ...

The team diagnosed him with primary psoas abscess, a rare psoas infection typically caused by a pathogen, like bacteria, traveling to the muscle from the blood or lymph nodes. A general surgeon ...