A surprising foreign body abscess

Benedikt Kolbrink; Felix Braun; Kevin Schulte

doi:10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01108

A surprising foreign body abscess

IDCases. 2021 Mar 31:24:e01108. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01108. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Benedikt Kolbrink¹, Felix Braun², Kevin Schulte¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
² Department of General, Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, 24105 Kiel, Germany.

Abstract

An abscess is a common complication after surgical interventions. Furthermore, abscesses of different genesis often occur under immunosuppression. In the case of a kidney transplant patient described here, however, the cause of an abscess-like mass in the abdomen was an unusual one, the etiology of which we could only clarify after surgical removal.

Keywords: Abscess; General surgery; Kidney transplantation; Nephrectomy; Nephrology.