Abscesses hurt for a reason. Painful and often unsightly, these pockets of pus form due to bacterial infections. While they are not always lasting or chronic, they can be a recurring challenge for ...

Bacterial skin infections technically have specific names based on their origin and extent, but in the medical community, they are often lumped into one of two categories: "boil" or "abscess." This ...

The first was a 6-year-old girl who presented with an abscess of a lymph node inferior to her right ear, shown in Figure 1. A needle aspiration was done yielding 2 mL of pus and relief of pain.