Acute empyema with intractable pneumothorax associated with ruptured lung abscess caused by Mycobacterium avium

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 443-446

  Asai, Katsuyuki ^a,b   Urabe, Norikazu ^a  

^a NUMAZU CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute empyema; Antibiotic therapy; Muscle flap transposition; Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NAUSEA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960336969     PISSN: 18636705     EISSN: 18636713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11748-010-0687-7     Document Type: Article

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