Amebiasis Pleuro Pulmonar

Tuberculous Pleuro-Cutaneous Fistula

Introduction: The pleural fistulas are defined by a fistula communicating the pleural cavity to the chest wall. They often occur in the immunocompromised individuals with pyogenic infections, much more rarely in immunocompetent patients with tuberculosis. Materials and Methods: Between February 2010 and August 2012, five patients were followed up and operated for tuberculous pleuro-cutaneous fi...

Pleuro-pulmonary amoebiasis.

From a retrospective scrutiny of 500 consecutive case records, which related to patients with empyema thoracis, over a 13-year period in a relatively closed community of one and a half million in the south-east region of Scotland (le Roux, 1965), it emerged that, in 50% of patients, empyema was related to non-specific pulmonary infection for which a persisting cause was not found, and that this...

Hepatic amebiasis.

Amebiasis can be considered the most aggressive disease of the human intestine, responsible in its invasive form for clinical syndromes, ranging from the classic dysentery of acute colitis to extra-intestinal disease, with emphasis on hepatic amebiasis, unsuitably named amebic liver abscess. Found worldwide, with a high incidence in India, tropical regions of Africa, Mexico and other areas of C...

Phylacogen in Pleuro-Pneumonia

Pleuro pericardial cyst.

A 68-year-old male, presented with exertional dyspnoea and chest pain in his anterior chest wall for 3 months. He had no previous history of cardiac disease. Clinical examination failed to show anything significant. Chest X-ray showed a mass superimposed over the upper cardiac silhouette. He was further evaluated by chest CT, which showed a cystic mass in the anterior mediastinum measuring 9 x ...