Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman

We report a case of a Clostridium septicum empyema in an immunocompetent woman following operation for an incarcerated internal hernia. The patient was successfully treated with pleural decortication and an extended course of postoperative antibiotics. This is the first report of such an infection i...

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Autores principales: Granok, Alexander B., Mahon, Patrick A., Biesek, Genesio W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20490275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/231738
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author Granok, Alexander B.
Mahon, Patrick A.
Biesek, Genesio W.
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description We report a case of a Clostridium septicum empyema in an immunocompetent woman following operation for an incarcerated internal hernia. The patient was successfully treated with pleural decortication and an extended course of postoperative antibiotics. This is the first report of such an infection in the medical literature.
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spelling pubmed-28715512010-05-20 Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman Granok, Alexander B. Mahon, Patrick A. Biesek, Genesio W. Case Rep Med Case Report We report a case of a Clostridium septicum empyema in an immunocompetent woman following operation for an incarcerated internal hernia. The patient was successfully treated with pleural decortication and an extended course of postoperative antibiotics. This is the first report of such an infection in the medical literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC2871551/ /pubmed/20490275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/231738 Text en Copyright © 2010 Alexander B. Granok et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Granok, Alexander B.
Mahon, Patrick A.
Biesek, Genesio W.
Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title_full Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title_fullStr Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title_full_unstemmed Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title_short Clostridium septicum Empyema in an Immunocompetent Woman
title_sort clostridium septicum empyema in an immunocompetent woman
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20490275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/231738
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