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Empyema thoracis: new insights into an old disease

F.J.H. Brims, S.M. Lansley, G.W. Waterer, Y.C.G. Lee
European Respiratory Review 2010 19: 220-228; DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00005610
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    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.

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    Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the chest in a liver transplant patient on immunosuppression who developed pneumonia and complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion.

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    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
F.J.H. Brims, S.M. Lansley, G.W. Waterer, Y.C.G. Lee
European Respiratory Review Sep 2010, 19 (117) 220-228; DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00005610

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Empyema thoracis: new insights into an old disease
F.J.H. Brims, S.M. Lansley, G.W. Waterer, Y.C.G. Lee
European Respiratory Review Sep 2010, 19 (117) 220-228; DOI: 10.1183/09059180.00005610
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