A clinical analysis of deep neck abscess in our department

―Regarding antimicrobial therapy

Abstract

We examined the clinical presentation of 31 cases of deep neck abscess treated in our department over the past 14 years and used the Mann-Whitney test and the χ-square test to compare the course of treatment, including duration of receiving either antimicrobial monotherapy or multidrug treatment. Of the 31 cases, 19 (61.3%) were treated with multidrug combination therapy, while the remaining 12 (38.7%) received single-agent treatment. No significant differences were noted between the groups in duration of treatment (p=0.110). When treating deep neck abscess, reliably draining the abscess is important, and antibiotic treatment after drainage is considered a useful single-agent treatment regimen.