Cerebellar Abscess Complicating Mastoid Empyema

Empyema and mediastinitis complicating retropharyngeal abscess.

A 21 year old man with a retropharyngeal abscess complained of right sided chest pain, and chest radiography and thoracocentesis revealed an empyema. A computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a posterior mediastinal abscess communicating with the right pleural cavity. Emergency thoracotomy was performed and the mediastinal abscess and empyema were drained.

Pseudomonas Abscess and Empyema

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Enterococcus avium cerebellar abscess.

Bi-Lateral Cerebellar Abscess

Casks of cerebellar abscess are so rare in the wards of the General Hospital that I need make no excuse for presenting this one to you. Several other interesting features in the progress and history of the disease make it particularly worthy of record. Alice Nona, a Singhalese girl of 8 years of age, was admitted into one of my wards on the 17th of January last, in a ^emi-conscious state, with ...

Empyema and Ruptured Lung Abscess in Adults.

This brief annotation concerns 18 adult patients with empyema complicating the rupture of a lung abscess into the pleural cavity who were referred to my service during the period 1957 to 1962. By different methods of treatment all these patients have been returned to health, but in some earlier cases the illness was painful and prolonged and multiple operations were necessary to attain a final ...