Empyema and mediastinitis complicating retropharyngeal abscess.
A 21 year old man with a retropharyngeal abscess complained of right sided chest pain, and chest radiography and thoracocentesis revealed an empyema. A computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a posterior mediastinal abscess communicating with the right pleural cavity. Emergency thoracotomy was performed and the mediastinal abscess and empyema were drained.
Watanabe
M
M
Department of Surgery II, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Ohshika
Y
Y
Aoki
T
T
Takagi
K
K
Tanaka
S
S
Ogata
T
T
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000209:etiology*; D017703:Retropharyngeal Abscess / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed