To drain or not to drain? Abscess or empyema?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Helen McDill; Cyrus Daneshvar; Maged Hassan; John P. Corcoran; David Waine; Lindsey Taylor; Graham Dack
- Source
- Thorax. 76:313-315
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Decision Making
Drain abscess
Lung abscess
Diagnosis, Differential
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Lung Abscess
030212 general & internal medicine
Empyema, Pleural
Aged
business.industry
Respiratory infection
respiratory system
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease
Empyema
respiratory tract diseases
Surgery
030228 respiratory system
Drainage
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1468-3296
0040-6376
We present a case posing the clinical dilemma of differentiating a large peripheral lung abscess from an empyema, discussing the imaging and management and the clinical issues posed.