Abscess of the buttocks is a complication of intramuscular injections. It occurs quite often, but it can be avoided if the rules of intramuscular injection are observed.
A purulent wound is a wound surface subjected to microbial contamination and where, as a result of a nonspecific response of the body's defenses directed against a rapidly growing exciter in the wound, pus formation takes place.
Phlegmon is a formidable manifestation of a purulent process, when the latter has no clear boundaries, but is a diffuse purulent inflammation that spreads through the cell spaces. All this is fraught with the rapid spread of the process, the threat of sepsis or the defeat of vital organs and systems.
Phlegmon is a severe form of purulent-inflammatory process. For phlegmon is characterized by an unlimited spread of purulent infection in the intercellular space.
Phlegmon are caused not only by pyogenic bacteria (causing suppuration), but also putrefactive and anaerobic (not requiring oxygen).
Phlegmon can develop in different tissues and organs and, according to the nature of its anatomical location, has a corresponding name.
