The Characteristic of Neck Abscess Patients at Sanglah General Hospital Denpasar in January, 1st – December, 31th 2014
Arta Eka Putra, Lely Rahayu and Witari IndrayaniDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical Faculty of Udayana University, Sanglah Hospital, Denpasar, Indonesia.
Corresponding Author E-mail: aep.tht@gmail.com
Abstract: Deep neck abscess is an abscess formed in potential space in neck fascia resulted by infection deployment from various sources like teeth, mouth, throat, paranasal sinus, ear, and neck. This research was a retrospective descriptive study design with secondary data from all the neck abscess patient’s medical record treated in RSUP Sanglah Denpasar. Twenty nine patients with neck abscess are included in this study with characteristic assessment related to gender, age, complaint, diagnosis, germs culture, antibiotic sensitivity, length of stay in hospital, commorbid factor, and complication. The subject is patient with deep neck abscess admitted in RSUP Sanglah from January until December 2014 with gender distribution of men (75,86%) and women (24,14%), with average age of 50,33 years old.
Keywords: Deep neck abscess; characteristic; infection; RSUP Sanglah Back to TOC