title: [Post-pneumonectomy pyothorax with and without broncho-pleural fistula].
abstract: This study reports the experience of the medical centre of Villiers Saint-Denis, where about 40 cases of pyothorax with or without broncho-pleural fistula were seen between 1975 and 1981. The authors describe their method to drain and wash the pleural cavity. They use a single chest tube with an irrigation system in simple empyema and two chest tubes with an irrigation system when they must close a broncho-pleural fistula. With this method, the infection was eradicated in 90% of the cases, and the broncho-pleural fistula closed within about 4 months in 80% of the cases. This method is compared with other methods used to treat pyothorax.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Avicenne, Bobigny.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Azorin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bah
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Renard
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: de Saint-Florent
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Battesti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001983:Bronchial Fistula / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D004322:Drainage; D004653:Empyema / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D011013:Pneumonectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation
vernacular_title: Pyothorax post-pneumonectomies avec ou sans fistule broncho-pleurale. Diagnostic et traitement.