Image-guided drainage versus antibiotic-only treatment of pelvic abscesses: short-term and long-term outcomes.

Objective: To determine the efficacy of image-guided drainage versus antibiotic-only treatment of pelvic abscesses.

Design: Retrospective cohort analysis.

Setting: An academic, inner-city medical center.

Uterine artery embolization in the management of vaginal bleeding from cervical pregnancy: a case series.

Objective: To report our experience of selective embolotherapy in 8 consecutive patients with cervical pregnancy (CxP) presenting with vaginal bleeding.

Study Design: A total of 9 selective pelvic embolization procedures were performed on 8 patients with CxP, either as an emergency, for control of vaginal hemorrhage (2 patients), or on a nonemergency basis, for moderate vaginal bleeding (6 patients). One patient underwent 2 embolization procedures, once for each indication.

Extrahepatic bile duct obstruction and erosive disruption by cavitating porta hepatis nodal metastasis, treated by uncovered wallstent.

A 45-year-old woman with advanced gastric carcinoma presented with obstructive jaundice. Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) revealed erosive disruption of the extrahepatic bile ducts by a cavitating metastasis in the porta hepatis, as well as a biliary-duodenal fistula. External-internal biliary drainage via the fistula was plagued by recurrent drain occlusion by necrotic debris.