Without treatment, the infection may spread to surrounding tissue and, in some instances, form a tunnel between the infected abscess and an opening in the skin. This is known as an anal fistula.

A mum needed emergency surgery after she developed a massive abscess following a session of fat dissolving injections on her tummy at a salon. Julia Lanni, 59, paid £120 for the 16 injections ...

Peritonsillar abscess, also known as quinsy, is a bacterial infection that causes pus to collect near the tonsils and the back of the throat. It usually starts with bacteria responsible for strep ...

Not treating a pilonidal cyst does have risks. There is always a risk of an infection, an abscess, becoming more serious, or multiple cysts forming. Specifically, there is a risk of a type of cancer ...

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The patient, from Ireland, developed an abscess with oozing pus at the site on her arm where she was injected. After weeks of doctors’ struggling to identify the cause, believing at first it was ...

Lal is now blind in one eye. However, the representative told WPTV on Wednesday that Lal has developed "multiple abscesses" around the surgical sites on her face. Lal will be transferred back to ...

Phase 2 trials’ preliminary results demonstrated that povorcitinib reduced abscess and inflammatory nodule counts in hidradenitis suppurativa patients. Hidradenitis suppurativa is a chronic, ...

An MRI revealed a mass on his brain and he was wheeled into an operating room in Alabama with what turned out to be an infected abscess. Things could have gone south, but he survived - returned to ...

The drug leaves users in a "zombie-like" state as it constricts blood vessels and cuts off oxygen flow to the body, causing abscesses that rot the flesh. The drug is also uniquely dangerous ...

warning that it could become an economic burden – "an abscess on the economy". "It will not even be a river port, let alone a seaport. It is essentially being built to transport coal for a power plant ...