Abscess after cardiac pacemaker implantation: A case report

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  FIGURE 1. Severely painful during palpation, well‐demarcated, vivid‐red swelling, and erythema present in the left upper chest area. The infiltrate is located above and around the pacemaker, the skin above it is smooth, tense, and shiny.

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  FIGURE 2. The skin of the left side of the chest was atrophic, with numerous discolorations (signs of late radiation reaction ‐ radiodermatitis).

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  FIGURE 3. Chest X‐ray of the patient. It shows shadowed diaphragmatic and rib angles, which relates to pleural fluid in pleural cavities.

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  FIGURE 4. A superficial ultrasound of the tissues of the left subclavian region. It shows a 54 × 49 × 20 mm reservoir of echogenic fluid surrounding the internal pacemaker at a depth of 5 mm, the wall of the reservoir with visible vascularization.