The authors deal with the problem of application of a therapeutic fine needle aspiration puncture in abscesses and other purulent foci in organs of abdominal cavity and retroperitoneum. The treatment using this method under continuing antibiotic therapy has been used in 60 patients (40 men, 20 women), 25 of them suffering from liver abscesses, 28 other from purulent foci of pancreas and seven patients from purulent foci of the kidney. In most patients there were solitary foci (43 persons). The total volume of the evacuated pus was higher than 20 ml in most patients (52), being even more than 100 ml in 2 patients. No relation ship was found among the number of foci, their volume and efficiency of the treatment. The average number of punctures until the abscesses and other purulent foci were healed up was 2.76 in the liver, 2.5 in pancreas and 1.1 in the kidney. The efficiency of therapy was higher in liver abscesses (96%), in purulent foci of pancreas (82%) and lower in the kidney abscesses (57%). The higher efficiency in the purulent foci of pancreas was probably influenced by predominant representation by infected pseudocysts in this group. The lower average number of punctures until the abscesses were healed up and the lower success in the kidney were influenced by a more radical approach of urologists who, having made the first evacuation puncture, performed a radical operation intervention. The complications were encountered in 9.5% of all punctures, being always insignificant. The results obtained demonstrated the contribution of aimed therapeutic aspiration puncture in the therapy of purulent foci of parenchymal organs of abdominal cavity and retroperitoneum as compared with surgical treatment. The advantage of the applied method in the therapy of purulent foci of the liver and pancreas may be seen in the higher success rate, low invasiveness and a low risk of complications together with a low financial cost and wide availability.

Keywords: Abscess /diagnostic imaging/; Female; Humans; Kidney Diseases /therapy/; Liver Abscess /therapy/; Male; Middle Aged; Pancreatic Diseases /therapy/; Punctures; Suction; Ultrasonography, Interventional