EMPYEMA AND PNEUMOTHORAX. PARACENTESIS OF NECESSITY.

Recurrent pneumothorax following abdominal paracentesis.

A 62 year old man presented with abdominal ascites, without pleural effusion, due to peritoneal mesothelioma. He had chronic obstructive airways disease and a past history of right upper lobectomy for tuberculosis. On two occasions abdominal paracentesis was followed within 72 hours by pneumothorax. This previously unreported complication of abdominal paracentesis may be due to increased diaphr...

Empyema complicating closed intrapleural pneumonolysis and artificial pneumothorax.

Despite many viscissitudes, pneumothorax is still the most important collapse measure in pulmonary tuberculosis. Its accessory procedure, closed intrapleural pneumonolysis, has increased greatly in usefulness and popularity and is considered to have very few complications. The most important one is tuberculous empyema which, in various published series’’#{176} ranges from zero to 26 per cent wi...

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 ...

A case of tension pneumothorax complicating staphylococcal pneumonia and empyema thoracis.

[Recurrent tuberculous pneumothorax and tuberculous empyema: an association of two rare complications].

To the Editor: In the past, tuberculosis was considered to be practically the only cause of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax (SSP). Currently, few SSPs are attributed to active tuberculosis. Before antibiotics, when techniques such as therapeutic pneumothorax or oleothorax were used to collapse cavitated pulmonary lesions, tuberculous empyema (TE) was relatively common. However, at present, t...