The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess

Multicavitary abscesses are uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. Splenic abscesses being relatively uncommon with an incidence of 0.1–0.7% in quoted series [ 1]. Commonly reported cases are secondary infective endocarditis. To have both a splenic abscess and empyema concurrently is rare. We desc...

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Autores principales: Kutywayo, Kudzayi H, Thekkudan, Joyce, Chowdhry, Mohammed Fiyaz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8599044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa541
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description Multicavitary abscesses are uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. Splenic abscesses being relatively uncommon with an incidence of 0.1–0.7% in quoted series [ 1]. Commonly reported cases are secondary infective endocarditis. To have both a splenic abscess and empyema concurrently is rare. We describe a case of a patient with a large left-sided empyema thoracis and concurrent splenic abscess.
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spelling pubmed-85990442021-11-18 The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess Kutywayo, Kudzayi H Thekkudan, Joyce Chowdhry, Mohammed Fiyaz J Surg Case Rep Case Report Multicavitary abscesses are uncommon in immunocompetent individuals. Splenic abscesses being relatively uncommon with an incidence of 0.1–0.7% in quoted series [ 1]. Commonly reported cases are secondary infective endocarditis. To have both a splenic abscess and empyema concurrently is rare. We describe a case of a patient with a large left-sided empyema thoracis and concurrent splenic abscess. Oxford University Press 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8599044/ /pubmed/34804473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa541 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title_full The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title_fullStr The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title_full_unstemmed The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title_short The chicken or the egg? A case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
title_sort chicken or the egg? a case of sympathetic staphylococcal empyema thoracis and splenic abscess
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8599044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34804473
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjaa541
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