Primary Anterior Thoracic Wall Abscess with Osteomyelitis by Salmonella paratyphi A: Case Report

Primary Thoracic Wall Hydatid Cyst Extended to the Abdominal wall: A Case Report

Hydatid disease (HD) is an infectious disease caused by echinococcosis. Hydatid cyst (HC) most commonly invades the liver (60-70%) and the lungs (20-25%). However, other parts of the body and even unusual locations can be infected, mimicking a benign lesion that could be easily missed. Primary HC of the chest wall is extremely rare, even in countries where echinococcosis is endemic. We he...

Primary anterior parietal wall abscess due to Salmonella Typhi.

Enteric fever is endemic in most of the developing regions, especially the Indian subcontinent. Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi) bacteremia is known to be associated with extra-intestinal disease. It is capable of forming abscesses in various organs, such as spleen, subcutaneous tissue and skin. The pathogenesis of abscess formation is not well established. Salmonella spp. can, though rarely, cause ...

Anterior chest wall tuberculous abscess: a case report

The granulomatous inflammation of tuberculosis usually involves the lungs and the hilar lymph nodes. Musculoskeletal tuberculosis (TB) occurs in 1-3% of patients with TB, while TB of the chest wall constitutes 1% to 5% of all cases of musculoskeletal TB. Furthermore, nowadays it is rarer to find extrapulmonary TB in immunocompetent rather that non-immunocompetent patients. The present case repo...

Simple Liver Cyst as a Focus of Salmonella paratyphi Abscess: A Case Report

Salmonellosis, endemic in various part of the world, is considered a differential diagnosis in a tropical traveller. Although it usually presents as gastroenteritis, its various clinical syndromes may vary from mild gastroenteritis to severe septicaemia including abscess formation, the later two being the most common cause of morbidity and mortality. Here we present a patient who returned to th...

Treatment of Salmonella paratyphi A osteomyelitis with trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole.