Shoji and colleagues retrospectively compared background factors in iliopsoas abscess
patients who underwent conservative treatment and found that the large abscess size
predicted treatment failure [
[1]
]. The abscess size is a variable that imaging studies can easily evaluate, and this
study would advance the understanding of surgical indications for iliopsoas abscesses.
In addition to the abscess size, other factors, such as end-stage renal disease and
immunosuppression, were also associated with the conservative treatment failure. These
factors would also be useful to judge surgical indications in clinical settings. However,
we would like to discuss one issue of this research: a potential difference in the
types of causative organism(s) between the success (S) and failure (F) groups.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: March 08, 2023
Accepted:
December 2,
2022
Received:
October 6,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Corrected ProofIdentification
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