title: A case of extrapleural empyema.
abstract: A 49-year-old man with diabetes mellitus and alcoholic liver cirrhosis presented with dyspnoea and fever. A chest computed tomography scan revealed three areas of loculated pleural effusion. Initially, the patient was thought to have an intrapleural empyema and was treated with intravenous antibiotics and closed drainage. However, as he did not improve, he was then treated with open drainage. During open drainage, the patient was diagnosed to have an extrapleural empyema and improved following open drainage treatment.
authors.affiliation: Nishi-Fukuoka Hospital, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. osaki@kokyu.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Shin-ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osaki
authors.forename: Yoichi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakanishi
authors.forename: Kouei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Andou
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hirota
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.forename: Nobuyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hara
mesh_terms: D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004322:Drainage; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed