Cases of Empyema

Subdural empyema. A review of 37 cases.

management of thoracic empyema: review of 112 cases

to review our experience in treatment of patients with thoracic empyema at a teaching hospital chart of patients were retrospectively reviewed over a 72-month period. a total of 112 patients (94 men, 18 women, mean age: 39, range: 6-89 years) underwent therapeutic procedures for thoracic empyema between 2001-2006. the causes of empyema included parapneumonic empyema (60.7%), thoracic trauma (20...

A Case of Empyema necessitans: An uncommon presentation of Empyema

ABSTRACTIntroductionEmpyema is an accumulation of pus in the pleural space. Empyema necessitans occurs when pus extends through the parietal pleura into the surrounding tissues.Case ReportWe present here a 4 month old babywith severe respiratory distress and anassociated huge boggy swelling over the left side of his chest and back. Evaluation revealed pus accumulated in the pleural space which ...

Three Cases of Empyema Suggestive of an Infectious Nature

three weeks of one another at Duna, the smallest of the tea gardens in my practice, with a population of only 150. Since November 1895 there had been no case of empyema on twenty-four gardens with a population of 15,000 coolies inspected daily by the native doctors, nor had 1 operated on a case, brought from a distance since April 1895. Case I.?L. M., aged 40, came from Purulia, suffering from ...

Empyema of the thorax in adults: review of 105 cases.

Thoracic empyema has become an uncommon disease in adults, tending to occur in chronically ill debilitated individuals. In this series, pulmonary infection was the underlying cause in more than half the cases, with bronchogenic carcinoma or other serious lung disease present in one fifth of the pulmonary infections. Thoracic surgery preceded almost one quarter of all cases. Staphylococcus aureu...