Figures
- Figure 1.
Ultrasound image of multiple septations and loculations in a patient presenting with a pneumonic illness and pleural effusion. Courtesy of N. Rahman, Oxford University, UK.
- Figure 2.
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the chest in a liver transplant patient on immunosuppression who developed pneumonia and complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion.
- Figure 3.
Oesophageal pleural fistula in a patient with Crohn's disease. a) A small left empyema, b) treated with small-bore chest drain; subsequent cultures grew mixed Gram-negative bacteria and yeast. c) Subsequent barium swallow demonstrates leak of contrast into left pleural space (arrow).
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Empyema thoracis: new insights into an old disease
