Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
Treatment varies, but often surgery, antibiotics, or both are needed.
Support Groups
Complications
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you think that you may have any type of abscess.
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Abscess Prevention
Review Date: 08/14/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical
Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
