| Title | Missed foreign body and nessitans empyema. | | Author(s) | Boots RJ, Windsor MN | | Institution | Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia. | | Source | Anaesth Intensive Care 2007 Dec; 35(6):971-4. | | Abstract | A recurrent empyema over a three-month period ultimately presented as an empyema necessitans (an empyema pointing through the skin) due to Fusobacterium varium. The recurrence of the empyema was due to an animal vertebra aspirated, during a bar-room altercation, into the right main bronchus, mimicking an endobronchial tumour. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 18084993 |
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