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Your issue is very vague. Can you provide addt'l information. i.e. what is causing the abdominal infection... the abscess? Also, you stated you are looking for an dx/icd.9... what is the primany dx. and are there other diagnosis relating to the S/S? If surgery was perfomed what was it?
It is an infectious disease consult...all I have is what she is seeing the patient for and the only other reference I have is ileus and s/p small bowel obstruction. I don't think there is enough detail there to tie anything together so I was just looking at "intra abdominal infection"