Paget's abscess
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A Paget's Abscess, named by eminent British surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget
, is an abscess
that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved.
James Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet was a British surgeon and pathologist who is best remembered for Paget's disease and who is considered, together with Rudolf Virchow, as one of the founders of scientific medical pathology. His famous works included Lectures on Tumours and Lectures on Surgical Pathology...
, is an abscess
Abscess
An abscess is a collection of pus that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue in which the pus resides due to an infectious process or other foreign materials...
that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved.