An anal abscess is an anal gland infection that causes pain, redness, and drainage in the rectal area. The drainage may be blood, pus, or stool. Untreated anal abscesses can develop into fistulas.

If the infection spreads, the boil can grow larger and become an abscess. This is a deep pocket of pus that requires urgent medical attention. Sometimes, other boils will erupt around the first one.

A surgeon pops a huge abscess on a man's jaw and captured the moment on video. Doctor Osama Makkia spent 20 minutes scrapping the pus out of his patient's abscess - which he admits is one of the ...

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Figure 3 Necrotising soft tissue infection originating from a periapical abscess on an upper right molar ... into the retropharyngeal space or up against the palate, leading to upper airway ...

A canker sore, also known as an aphthous ulcer or recurrent aphthous stomatitis, can appear on the softer parts of your mouth, such as your tongue, lips, soft palate, or cheeks. It typically forms as ...