DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS BASED UPON A STUDY OF 139 CASES
Authors: Lew A. Hochberg
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 August 1942DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA FOR SUBPHRENIC ABSCESS BASED UPON A STUDY OF 139 CASESLEW A. HOCHBERG, M.D.LEW A. HOCHBERG, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-17-2-183 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn reviewing the literature on subphrenic abscess, one is confronted by a host of terms used more or less synonymously with subphrenic abscess. The more frequently encountered names are perigastric abscess (Barlow), suprahepatic abscess (Bernheim), supracolic abscess (Mitchell), false pneumothorax (Cossy), pneumoperforative peritonitis (Sanger), hepatoperitoneal abscess (Ferol), pyopneumothorax subphrenicus (Leyden), subphrenic empyema, hypophrenic empyema, subphrenic pyopneumo-peritonitis, subphrenic peritonitis, subdiaphragmatic peritonitis and subdiaphragmatic abscess.Delario1states that the first case of subphrenic abscess described in the literature was reported in 1824. This was based on the necropsy observations of a case of apparently long duration. Some 20 years later Barlow2reported...References1. DELARIO AJ: Subphrenic abscess, Am. Jr. Roentgenol., 1934, xxxi, 177. Google Scholar2. BARLOW GH: Perforation of the stomach with obscure thoracic symptoms, London Med. Gaz., 1845, i, 13. Google Scholar3. MARTINET A: Des variétés anatomiques, d'abcès sous-phrénique, Thèse de Paris, no. 84, 1898. Google Scholar4. 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