No abstract available in English.
Drainage* ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung*

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Adult ; Humans ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung*

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Catheters* ; Drainage* ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung*

Research on 101 patients files of lung abcess patients were treated in Respiratory department of Bach Mai hospital from 1999 to 2003, the results showed that: male patients: 63.3%, the age ≥30: 79.2%, manual labours: 72.3%. Being hospitalized reasons: high fever: 31.7%, chest pains: 29.75, pus spit: 26.7%. The most clinical patients: cough: 100%, chest pain: 91.1%, dyspnea: 57.4%; Absent frmitus, dullness and absent breath sound in: 60.4%, crackle: 57.4%. In chest xray, lessions on the right lung: 75.5%, lower lobe: 65.3%, 90.6% of patients had 1 lession. Air-fluid level was observered in 54.1%. Leukocyte in peripheral blood increase 79.2%, rate of neuter multikernel leukocyte increase 81.2%, blood deposit speed increase 100%.
Diagnosis ; Lung Abscess ; Therapeutics

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Drainage* ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung* ; Pneumothorax* ; Suppuration*

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Diabetic Ketoacidosis* ; Lung Abscess* ; Lung* ; Mucormycosis*

Differential diagnosis of cavitary lung lesions is frequently problematic. We studied 35 patients with cavitary lung lesions, consisting of lung cancer (17 patients). Pulmonary tuberculosis(11 patients), and lung abscess (7 patients). We analysed CT scans in terms of irregularities of the cavity wall, maximum wall thickness, the presence of air-fluid level, location of the cavity within the mass, number of cavities within the mass, size of the cavity and the presence of calcification within the mass. Cancer cavity showed irregular inner (100%) and outer margins(100%), and thick wall (mean, 1.94cm), eccentrical location(94%) and multiplicity within a mass(38%). Tuberculous cavity showed smooth inner (56%) and irregular outer margins(75%), thin wall (mean 0.96cm), central location (62%), and multiplicity in one patient (36%). Abscess cavity showed irregular inner (57%) and outer margins(91%), relatively thin wall (mean 1.0cm), central location (57%), and air-fluid level (86%). CT scan could differentiate malignant lesions from benign condition such as tuberculosis and lung abscess by observing characteristics of the cavities.
Abscess* ; Diagnosis, Differential ; Humans ; Lung Abscess ; Lung Neoplasms* ; Lung* ; Tomography, X-Ray Computed ; Tuberculosis*

Intrapulmonary aberrant needle is rarely encountered in clinical practice. Even if the patient is asymptomatic, the aberrant needle should be removed because it can migrate into the major organs and cause lung abscess or empyema. We report here on 2 cases of successfully removed intrapulmonary aberrant needle, along with a review of the literature.
Empyema ; Foreign Bodies* ; Humans ; Lung Abscess ; Needles

The authors report a extemely rare case of primary cerebellar nocardial abscess. Cerebral nocardiosis is arare disease and often fatal, and commonly spreaded from nocardiosis of lung or skin. Total excision of abscess and medication with sulfonamide is the treatment of choice. The patient was treated by continuous external dirainage with intermittent irrigation of abscess cavity by sulfonamide and given with sulfonamide for 10 months.
Abscess ; Humans ; Lung ; Nocardia Infections* ; Skin

Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital anomaly of the lung in which it is separately supplied from the aorta or one of its branches. Bilateral pulmonary sequestration is very rare, particularly in adults. In bilateral pulmonary sequestration, resection of both sides is usually recommended if both sides are infected and symptomatic. We report the case of a 37-year-old female patient with bilateral intralobar pulmonary sequestration treated by staged bilateral lower lobectomy.
Adult ; Aorta ; Bronchopulmonary Sequestration ; Female ; Humans ; Lung ; Lung Abscess