His major problem was sepsis, from an abdominal abscess that developed after the surgery.

Now, CT scans can detect an abdominal abscess, for example, and have reduced what once required three operations to one.

This was followed by surgery to treat an abdominal abscess, and in late March 1968, more surgery to dissolve a blood clot in her left lung.

Mr. Medvin added that he had started an investigation into whether hospital officials negligently caused Mr. Moreno's death when doctors treated him for an abdominal abscess on Jan. 22.

Good medical practice for large abdominal abscesses requires insertion of a drainage tube, preceded by insertion of a PICC line to enable readiness of treatment for possible septic shock.

The surgeons, who have been treating the governor at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital in Manhattan for the last week, said for the first time that he had suffered peritonitis and abdominal abscesses - both potentially life-threatening conditions - and fever.

Abdominal infections are characteristically biphasic: an initial stages of generalized peritonitis associated with Escherichia coli sepsis, and a later stages, in which intra abdominal abscesses harboring anaerobic bacteria ( including B. fragilis group ) emerge.

Some of the surgical cures listed, such as the opening of an abdominal abscess or the removal of traumatic foreign material, are realistic enough to have taken place, but with the patient in a state of enkoimesis induced with the help of soporific substances such as opium.

Appendicitis Incarcerated or strangulated hernia Ovarian torsion (twisted Fallopian tube) Pelvic inflammatory disease Abdominal abscess Hepatitis Diverticular disease Meckel's diverticulum Any person with point tenderness should call or present to an emergency room in order to be examined promptly by the health care provider!