Lung abscess seen on echocardiography

Lung abscess as seen in a municipal hospital.

AU lung abscesses, a total of 95 cases, diagnosed at the Milwaukee County General Hospital from January, 1950, through December, 1958, were reviewed. The incidence remained constant during these years. Excluded were cases of minute embolic lung abscesses, bronchiectasis, tuberculous cavities, infected congenital cysts, hydatid cysts, and abscesses due to central necrosis of extensive neoplasms....

Duplication of aortic wall seen by echocardiography.

In four patients, echocardiography showed duplication of an aortic wall echo. An aortic dissection was present in only one. Other causes for the echocardiographic pattern were abscess in the interventricular septum, mitral stenosis, and dilatation of the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva. Division of the echo from the mitral ring into two separate posterior aortic wall echoes was seen only in the p...

Lung Abscess

Introduction.?There are many points in the aetiology and treatment of lung abscess that are still not fully understood. Hence, the writer decided to.study the records of the cases of lung abscess admitted and treated at the Kin? Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Parel. The material consists of fifty consecutive clinic*1' cases of lung abscess. Hippocrates thought that lung abscess was caused by inh...

Lung Abscess

Lung Abscess

Abscess of the lung is aptly defined by Maxwell (1934) as 'non-tuberculous suppuration with cavitation occurring in the lung tissue \ Nowadays, it is generally agreed that abscess and gangrene of the lung clinically are different stages of the same pathological process which is likely to appear under certain conditions. The stage of the suppurative process will depend upon the virulence of the ...