Pulmonary gangrene complicating bacterial pneumonia.
Two cases of pulmonary gangrene involving left lower lobe in an 18-month and 4-year-old female children are reported. The patients looked like having empyema following Klebsiella pneumonia. The diagnosis was made following computerized tomography scan and during decortication respectively.
Kothari
Paras R
PR
Department of Pediatric Surgery, L.T.M. Medical College and General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai 400 022, India.
Jiwane
Ashish
A
Kulkarni
Bharati
B
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000473:pathology*