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.
Department of Surgery II, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
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M
Watanabe
Y
Y
Ohshika
T
T
Aoki
K
K
Takagi
S
S
Tanaka
T
T
Ogata
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