Primary lung abscess

Primary actinomycotic lung abscess.

A 20-year-old man presented with a history of low-grade intermittent fever, cough with copious foul-smelling purulent sputum, recurrent massive haemoptysis and right-sided pleuritic chest pain for the preceeding two years. Before coming to hospital, he was diagnosed to have pulmonary tuberculosis on the basis ofhis clinical features and chest X-ray and had been receiving antituberculosis treatm...

Lung Abscess

Introduction.?There are many points in the aetiology and treatment of lung abscess that are still not fully understood. Hence, the writer decided to.study the records of the cases of lung abscess admitted and treated at the Kin? Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Parel. The material consists of fifty consecutive clinic*1' cases of lung abscess. Hippocrates thought that lung abscess was caused by inh...

Lung Abscess

Lung Abscess

Abscess of the lung is aptly defined by Maxwell (1934) as 'non-tuberculous suppuration with cavitation occurring in the lung tissue \ Nowadays, it is generally agreed that abscess and gangrene of the lung clinically are different stages of the same pathological process which is likely to appear under certain conditions. The stage of the suppurative process will depend upon the virulence of the ...

Tubercular Lung Abscess, Tubercular Lung Abscess in a Diabetic Female

Liquefactive necrosis of the lung tissue caused by microbial infection, lung abscess is characterised by formation of cavities containing necrotic debris. In the vast majority of cases of lung abscess, polymicrobial bacteria can be found with predominance of anaerobes. Mycobacterium has been described as a very rare causative agent of community acquired lung abscess. We are presenting a case of...