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case_images: CT pelvis (axial slices) demonstrating the perianal surgical site with packing, and the gas and fluid containing intergluteal collection.
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case_images: Pelvic computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a contiguous abscess extending from the surgical cavity through the greater sciatic notch and into the left gluteal region (Figs. 1 and 2).
case_images: MRI pelvis (sagittal slice, patient lying lateral) demonstrating air-fluid level within the intermuscular abscess (red arrow), and artefact from SIJ screws (blue arrow).
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case_images: Pelvic computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a contiguous abscess extending from the surgical cavity through the greater sciatic notch and into the left gluteal region (Figs. 1 and 2).
case_images: Clinical photographs of the patient's VAC dressings (left) and the posterior approach to the hip with the exposed sciatic nerve (right).
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case_images: The orthopaedic team drained the intergluteal abscess extension via a posterior approach to the hip (Moore/Southern approach) (Fig. 3).