[Lung abscess: evolution of a complication over 45 years].
143 patients with lung abscesses were hospitalised at the Department of Surgery at University Hospital Zurich from 1946 to 1990. Analysing our patients in a retrospective study we concluded as follows: 1. Lung abscesses have nearly disappeared in our patients. 2. Lung abscesses can be cured without lethality. 3. Cancers of the lung causing abscesses were not seen any more since 1960. 4. A compromised immunological system appeared as a new pathogenetical factor since the beginning of the 1980ies.
Klinik für Viszeralchirurgie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
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D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008169:Lung Abscess / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology