[The role of ultrasonic diagnosis in selecting the surgical tactics in suppurative-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues].

Ultrasonography was conducted in 66 patients with postinjection infiltrations, abscesses, postoperative scar suppurations, mastitis and other inflammatory conditions. Ultrasonography detected abscesses at different sites in 32 patients. Accurate topical diagnosis and the assessment of the size of the cavity, the number of chambers and the state of the adjacent tissues determined the choice of surgical strategy for each individual case, a radical abscessectomy being preferred in most cases. Ultrasonographic diagnosis of soft-tissue phlegmons at different sites of the body also made possible an urgent choice of a radical surgical procedure.