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Empyema after image-guided percutaneous intercostal drainage of subdiaphragmatic collection: a case series. [PDF]
, 2022 Background Treatment of subdiaphragmatic collection by intercostal image-guided drain placement is associated with a risk of pleural complications including potentially life-threatening pleural empyema.
Candinas, Daniel +10 more
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Repeated episodes of thoracic empyema after spontaneous esophageal rupture [PDF]
, 2019 2019-11A 52-year-old man with a cough, high fever, and inappetence was diagnosed with thoracic empyema on computed tomography at a local hospital. He had undergone continuous thoracic drainage for a spontaneous esophageal rupture that occurred 17 years ...
Sakatoku, Yayoi +5 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Empyema, a severe complication of pneumonia, trauma, and surgery is characterized by fibrinopurulent effusions and loculations that can result in lung restriction and resistance to drainage.
Sophia Karandashova +3 more
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Results of two fibrinolytics in treatment of the early stage of empyema [PDF]
Zagazig University Medical Journal, 2023 Management of an early empyema is an important problem in thoracic surgery. As an alternative to surgical treatment empyema is in patients who developed early empyema , intra-pleural fibrinolysis has been used with favorable results.
amr tawfek +3 more
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Empyema necessitans complicating a mild COVID‐19 infection in a young immunocompetent patient
Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message COVID‐19 infection can be complicated by secondary bacterial infections including pneumonia and empyema resulting in worse outcomes.
Sierra Sullivan +3 more
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Approach to Empyema Necessitatis
, 2011 Thoracic empyema is a collection of pus in the pleural space. Empyema necessitatis is a rare complication of empyema, characterized by the dissection of pus through the soft tissues of the chest wall and eventually through the skin. We present nine cases
Akgul, Asli Gul +9 more
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Jurnal Respirasi, 2018 Background: Pleural effusion is the most common complication of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Some coexist with secondary infection could worsen clinical presentation as empyema.
Isnin Anang Marhana +1 more
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A Simple Method for Differentiating Complicated Parapneumonic Effusion/Empyema from Parapneumonic Effusion Using the Split Pleura Sign and the Amount of Pleural Effusion on Thoracic CT. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Pleural separation, the "split pleura" sign, has been reported in patients with empyema. However, the diagnostic yield of the split pleura sign for complicated parapneumonic effusion (CPPE)/empyema and its utility for differentiating CPPE/empyema from ...
Naoki Tsujimoto +9 more
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