Increasing number of lung diseases, unfavorable environmental factors, dissemination infectious agents in a patient's body result increased frequency purulent-septic complications, thereby making the study on methods their diagnosis and treatment relevant. Aim work: to examine diagnostic value ultrasound (US) spiral computed tomography (SCT) acute abscesses determining tactics surgical treatmen...

We report a case of severe Legionnaires' disease (LD) complicated by a lung abscess in an immunocompetent patient who required ECMO therapy and thoracic surgery. The results of repeated Legionella quantitative real-time PCR performed on both sera and respiratory samples correlated with the LD severity and the poor clinical outcome. Moreover, the PCR allowed for the detection of Legionella DNA i...

Accidentally swallowed dentures can cause serious complications when they are not diagnosed and treated promptly. We report an extremely rare case of a lung abscess caused by a swallowed complete denture. Chest computed tomography and endoscopic examination revealed that a swallowed denture migrated to the right upper lobe through an esophagopulmonary fistula, and a lung abscess developed. A li...

Introduction:
 Spinal epidural abscess is a rare neurosurgical emergency that usually seen invasive interventions to the spinal region, trauma or infection. In our case, anteriorly located abscess, which caused by spontaneous esophageal rupture as complication of radiotherapy, described.
 Case report:
 A 60-year-old female patient was admitted department with complaints confusion...

Lung abcess is a rarely identified suppurative infection that has air-liquid level bigger 2 cm diameter on pulmonary graphy. It should especially be considered in the case of treatment-refractory pneumonic infections of persons with chronic diseases. In order to point out to the importance of this issue, this study presents a case of pulmonary abcess identified in a patient who was followed up ...