Empyema

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Aspergillus fumigatus empyema, arthritis, and calcaneal osteomyelitis in a lung transplant patient successfully treated with posaconazole. 
  • CT and radiographic assessment of tube thoracostomy. 
  • Differentiating lung abscess and empyema: radiography and computed tomography. 
  • Penetration of cephradine into normal, inflammatory, and infected pleural fluids in rabbits. 
  • Pleural fluid in infants and children. 
  • Safety of an intercostal approach for imaging-guided percutaneous drainage of subdiaphragmatic abscesses. 
  • Straightening out chest tubes: what size, what type, and when. 
  • The contribution of leukocytes and bacteria to the low pH of empyema fluid. 
  • The pathogenesis of the low pleural fluid pH in esophageal rupture. 
  • The pleuropulmonary consequences of esophageal rupture: an experimental model. 
  • Unilateral empyema as a complication of infectious mononucleosis: a pathogenic variant of Lemierre's syndrome.