Is Loop Drainage Technique More Effective for Treatment of Soft Tissue Abscess Compared With Conventional Incision and Drainage?

Authors identified 11,047 studies after removal of duplicates, of which they included 4 studies for the meta-analysis comprising 460 patients (Table). Three studies were retrospective, and the fourth study was a randomized controlled trial. Two studies included pediatric patients only (<18 years),2,3 and 2 studies included adult patients (Table).4,5 The conventional incision and drainage technique failed in 9.43% of cases (25/265), whereas the loop drainage technique resulted in failure in 4.10% of patients (8/195).

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