We report a case of Lemierre's syndrome with a pleuropulmonary complication. Lemierre's syndrome is a rare etiology of lung abscess. The diagnosis is clinical and microbiological (anaerobic organisms). This syndrome associates an acute oropharyngeal infection with septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein (sometimes many days before the lung lesion) and pulmonary abscess formation. C...

For patients with pyogenic lung abscesses who do not respond to medical therapy, thoracotomy with pulmonary resection is the widely-accepted treatment of choice. Six patients with lung abscess who failed to respond to conservative medical management were treated by percutaneous catheter drainage using small catheters (10 Fr or smaller). Five patients showed prompt clinical improvement and the s...

Background: Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) represents 14% of all lung cancer cases. The current standard of care for limited stage SCLC is the chemotherapy combination of EP (etoposide, cisplatin) with concomitant radiotherapy. Treatment protocol is tolerated well and is associated with few side effects.Case Description: 58 y.o. lady diagnosed to have limited stage SCLC in our institute in Novem...

or tuberculous cavities has prompted us to review all the cases of neoplastic abscess seen in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Regional Thoracic Surgery Centre over the last 12 years. From 1940 to 1951 70 cases of neoplastic abscess were admitted to the clinic, and this paper reports the results of our study of these cases and discusses the main problems encountered in diagnosis. Our criterion in select...

Almost all patients with cystic fibrosis eventually develop chronic pulmonary infection with specific bacterial pathogens, notably Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Despite this, the development of large pulmonary abscess cavities in patients with cystic fibrosis is exceedingly uncommon. Similarly, bacteraemia in cystic fibrosis is surprisingly rare. We describe a patient with c...

reason for publishing the following case : ? William Maclean, aged 45, a seaman, was admitted to the General Hospital, Calcutta, on the 26th May 1885, suffering from urgent dyspnoea, severe precordial pain and pyrexia, ranging from 100? in the morning to 101? in the evening. 27th May.?Temperature 98?, pulse 88 of good strength and volume, respirations 44. There is great dyspnoea and severe pain...

Candida albicans lung abscess is a rare entity. We present a case in a patient who suffered from Hodgkin's disease and was receiving immunosuppressive therapy. The patient responded to treatment with 5-fluorocytosine.

THE following case is of clinical interest for three reasons: (a) The etiological possibilities, (b) The therapeutic problem, (c) A good result after prolonged and hazardous illness. R. MCC., AGED 50 YEARS; OCCUPATION-PRINTER. This iman, who is well known to me, had no history of previous illness except periodic indefinite dyspeptic symptoms. On the evening of the 2nd October, 1936. he was seiz...

We report an interesting case of delayed frontal abscess caused by a penetrating nonmissile foreign body, a bamboo stick in a 1.5-year-old male child. A parietal craniotomy was performed, and the brain abscess was resected along with the foreign body without any damage to the surrounding brain tissue. He also received the appropriate antibiotics. The child made a good recovery.

Oesophageal moniliasis is reviewed and the incidence of fistula formation discussed. A case of oesophageal moniliasis without any predisposing factors, with fistula formation and lung abscess, is presented.