Pleural gas gangrene secondary to esophageal injury by an ingested fish bone.
We report a 73-year-old woman with right pleural gas gangrene, treated successfully by thoracoscopic debridement. The clinical course and chest computed radiography and thoracoscopy findings suggested that her condition resulted from a relatively rare esophageal injury after she accidentally ingested a fish bone. Video-assisted thoracoscopic intervention has proved useful in cases involving pleural gas gangrene.
Endo
Shunsuke
S
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Jichi Medical School, Utsunomiya Social Insurance Hospital, Tochigi, Japan.
Kobayashi
Akira
A
Hasegawa
Tsuyoshi
T
Yamaguchi
Tsutomu
T
Murayama
Fumio
F
Sohara
Yasunori
Y
D000368:Aged; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000209:etiology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000293:injuries*; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010995:Pleural Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed