“…In recent years, it has been successfully developed a more conservative approach, trying to preserve the organ through an aggressive antimicrobial therapy and radiological guided percutaneous drainage in hemodynamically stable younger patients with unique abscesses, without walls and away from the splenic hilum and in patients with high surgical risk, associated comorbidity, important or serious deterioration of the general status due to the sepsis status (1,(3)(4)(5). Percutaneous drainage allows choosing the most appropriate antibiotic, avoids the risk of purulent peritoneal dissemination and potential complications of splenectomy, reduces hospital stay, it is better tolerated by the patient and the cost is minor (4,5).…”