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The study at hand aims to answer the question whether needle aspiration is a viable alternative for surgical drainage. Methods: All patients who had been treated surgically (n = 39) or via ultrasound-guided needle aspiration (n = 18) at our clinic were included into this monocentric retrospective analysis. Results: There was no statistically significant difference (p = 0.142) regarding the mean abscess volume in both groups (5.7 vs. 10.1 mL). Therapy of the abscesses on average required 1.88 (1\u20135) ultrasound-guided needle aspirations or 1.10 (1\u20134) surgical interventions. There was a trend to a shorter inpatient treatment period (5.88 vs. 7.33 days) after ultrasound-guided needle aspiration. This trend did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.301). Facial nerve alterations did not occur in any of the patients. Postoperative bleeding did never occur after needle aspirations but in 2% of the patients after surgical abscess revision. 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