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Although sometimes an abscess will open and drain spontaneously, it often needs to be lanced (incision and drainage) by a health care provider. Certain abscesses may require a surgical drainage ...

Abscesses and purulent drainage In some cases, your doctor might find that an abscess has formed. This happens when an infection causes a pocket of pus to form somewhere in the wound.

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It was only the beginning.” Healing deeper wounds Inside the clinic in Philadelphia, HIV physician Laura Bamford speaks in Spanish to the patient whose abscess she just treated. “It’s a lot better, ...

Culture of the wound, the abscess, the meninges, the left lung and the blood showed K. pneumoniae. It is of interest that the abscess had remained quiescent for 4 weeks before it ruptured, leading ...