Bilateral empyema treated by sequential pleuroscopy.
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Bilateral empyema associated to infectious pericarditis is an extremely rare, yet life-threatening condition. Pleuroscopy-medical thoracoscopy has proved its efficacy in series of patients with empyema. Yet, all reported cases treated by this technique, concerned patients with pleural infection located to a single hemithorax. We present the case of a 71-year-old man with bilateral empyema treated successfully by sequential pleuroscopy, associated to infectious pericarditis.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Monaldi archives for chest disease = Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace
دوره 81 1-2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016