ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences2025
Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Catheter Drainage in Periappendiceal abscess Management: Retrospective Insights.
Article in Pakistan journal of medical sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the comparative efficacy and safety of percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) combined with antibiotic therapy versus emergency laparoscopic surgery (ELS) for treating periappendiceal abscesses. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 90 patients diagnosed with periappendiceal abscesses at Harbin Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine between March 2022 and December 2023. The study compared clinical outcomes between two groups: one receiving percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) with antibiotic therapy and the other undergoing emergency laparoscopic surgery. The comparison encompassed key outcomes such as operative time, gastrointestinal function recovery, length of hospital stays, postoperative complication rate, recurrence rate, and the need for additional interventions. Results: The PCD group exhibited a significantly shorter operative time ( Conclusion: Ultrasound-guided PCD has been shown to be effective and safe in the management of periappendiceal abscesses in our single-center clinical study. It offers several benefits over ELS, such as reduced operative time and a decreased incidence of postoperative complications. Our results suggest that PCD, in conjunction with antibiotic therapy, is a feasible alternative to surgery, significantly reducing patient discomfort and healthcare resource consumption. However, these findings are specific to our center, and further multicenter studies are required to confirm these results and to establish guidelines for the optimal application of PCD in clinical practice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.