Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis

Empyema thoracis is a well known complication following para-pneumonic effusions in paediatric age group. Usually it is unilateral but rarely could be bilateral. Herein we report a case of bilateral tuberculous empyema thoracis in a 12 years old, unvaccinated girl with a positive history of contact...

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Autor principal: Khan, Yousuf Aziz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3418046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953307
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description Empyema thoracis is a well known complication following para-pneumonic effusions in paediatric age group. Usually it is unilateral but rarely could be bilateral. Herein we report a case of bilateral tuberculous empyema thoracis in a 12 years old, unvaccinated girl with a positive history of contact with tuberculosis. She was managed conservatively with tube thoracostomies and anti-tuberculous drugs. Emphasis is on the conservative approach and patience in management of patients with bilateral empyema thoracis.
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spelling pubmed-34180462012-09-05 Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis Khan, Yousuf Aziz APSP J Case Rep Case Report Empyema thoracis is a well known complication following para-pneumonic effusions in paediatric age group. Usually it is unilateral but rarely could be bilateral. Herein we report a case of bilateral tuberculous empyema thoracis in a 12 years old, unvaccinated girl with a positive history of contact with tuberculosis. She was managed conservatively with tube thoracostomies and anti-tuberculous drugs. Emphasis is on the conservative approach and patience in management of patients with bilateral empyema thoracis. EL-MED-Pub 2012-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3418046/ /pubmed/22953307 Text en Copyright © 2012 Khan YA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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title Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis
title_full Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis
title_fullStr Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis
title_short Bilateral Suspected Tuberculous Empyema Thoracis
title_sort bilateral suspected tuberculous empyema thoracis
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