title: [A case of chronic hemorrhagic pyothorax treated by extraperiosteal air plombage method].
abstract: A 64-year-old female patient was admitted with severe exertional dypnea. She had undergone left pneumonectomy because of lung tuberculosis at the age of 31. Her chest X-ray showed total opacity of the left hemithorax and mediastinal deviation to the right. The examination of the pleural effusion revealed neither malignant cells nor micro-organisms. She underwent surgery, by extraperiosteal air plombage method, successfully. Five months after the operation, her lung function and chest X-ray improved dramatically and exertional dyspnea was diminished. We conclude that the extraperiosteal air plombage method is a useful technique for patients with chronic hemorrhagic pyothorax.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Surgery, Nakadohri General Hospital, Akita, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawamura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sakata
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okubo
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hosino
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gouko
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006491:Hemothorax / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000379:methods