Chronic pulmonary suppuration

Chronic pulmonary suppuration.

The purpose of this paper is to focus attention on present antibiotic treatment of pulmonary suppurative disease, inasmuch as the current literature does not stress medical management. From the literature one receives the impression that in acute suppurative conditions of the lung surgical treatment is still the preferred method of management and that it should be instituted early. In fact, acu...

Amebic pulmonary suppuration.

LEUROPULMONARY L E S I O N S NEXT TO P t h e liver are the most common extraintedinal manifestations of amebiasis. Since the original reports by Collin and Nixon' and Opie,' a good number of accounts based on clinical and necropsy data have appeared in the literature. In the majority of cases, pulmonary involvement is secondaxy to hepatic involvement. In approximately 75 per cent of the case$ t...

The Treatment of Pulmonary Suppuration*

The conditions we will consider include suppurative pneumonitis, lung abscess and gangrene, infected lung cysts and bronchiectasis. Spontaneous resolution of the first three conditions and complete amelioration of symptoms in the last two-even in the inevitable persistence of gross anatomical deformity-occurs frequently. Accordingly active surgical intervention is withheld until it becomes obvi...

The Prevention of Cerebral Abscess Secondary to Pulmonary Suppuration.

Lipomatous pseudohypertrophy of the pancreas associated with chronic pulmonary suppuration in an adult.