Empyema necessitans in the setting of pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 106-108

  Ahmed, Saud I ^a,b   Gripaldo, Ria E ^a   Alao, Oladipo A ^a  

^a HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; OXACILLIN; TUBERCULIN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPYEMA; EMPYEMA NECESSITANS; ENDOCARDITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SWELLING; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847061646     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000441-200702000-00007     Document Type: Article

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