Intracavitary contrast-enhanced ultrasound in ultrasound-guided percutaneous management of abdominal fluid collections/abscesses by a single clinician: an example of point-of-care ultrasound

摘要

a A left subdiaphragmatic abscess (a) was displayed around the spleen (S) in a 40-year-old man after bariatric surgery. b After catheter positioning, the abscess cavity (between white arrows) was barely recognizable, whereas the catheter tip was not seen. B-mode scan was blurred with blood due to procedural trauma (S = Spleen). c IC-CEUS enabled the localization of the catheter inside the collection (white arrows) and the visualization of the real extension of the abscess; no extravasation into the adjacent splenic parenchyma was noted