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Common types of abscesses
- Boils
and carbuncles. Sebaceous glands and superficial skin are the places
usually infected.
- Dental
abscess. An abscess that develops along the root of a tooth.
- Pilonidal
abscess. People who have a birth defect involving a tiny opening in
the skin just above the anus may have fecal bacteria enter this opening,
causing an infection and a subsequent abscess.
- Retropharyngeal,
parapharyngeal, peritonsillar abscess. As a result of throat infections
like strep throat and tonsillitis, bacteria invade the deeper tissues
of the throat and cause a parapharyngeal or peritonsillar abscess. A
retropharyngeal abscess is a result of something usually blood-borne,
and not from a direct spread of tonsillitis. These abscesses can compromise
swallowing and even breathing.
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