Empyema toracis can be defined as a purulent pleural effusion. From 1998 to 2003 we treated 106 patients (87 men and 19 women), aged between 23 and 82 years, affected by localized empyema toracis. All of them received initially a chest tube and 73 of them (60 men and 13 women), in combination with selected antibiotics, had an uneventful recovery. Twenty three patients (17 men and 5 women) under...

TOPIC: Lung Pathology TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) can result in significant morbidity and mortality. Among the patients admitted with CAP, a rare complication is parapneumonic or post pneumonic empyema thoracis. Although course may vary patient to patient, these complications lead prolonged treatment thus leading longer hospital s...

Nocardia species do not replicate as rapidly other pyogenic bacteria and nocardial infections can be highly fatal, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Here, we present the first report of fatal kroppenstedtii bacteremic pneumonia empyema thoracis diagnosed by next-generation sequencing (NGS) using Oxford Nanopore Technologies' MinION device. The bacterium was identified matrix-assisted ...

For chronic fissure in ano, surgical excision and suture has been practised with surprisingly good results. A stay suture is inserted at the proximal and distal extremities of the fissure which is made prominent by tension on each stay. The fissure is then easily excised with the subjacent portion of the subcutaneous external sphincter. Two or three figure-of-eight sutures of fine nylon are pla...