• Internal medicine · Jan 2017

    Case Reports

    A Community-acquired Lung Abscess Attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae which Extended Directly into the Chest Wall.

    • Yuki Ko, Kazunori Tobino, Yuichiro Yasuda, Takuto Sueyasu, Saori Nishizawa, Kouhei Yoshimine, Miyuki Munechika, Mina Asaji, Yoshikazu Yamaji, Kosuke Tsuruno, Hiroyuki Miyajima, Yosuke Mukasa, and Noriyuki Ebi.
    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Iizuka Hospital, Japan.
    • Intern. Med. 2017 Jan 1; 56 (1): 109113109-113.

    AbstractWe herein report the case of 75-year-old Japanese female with a community-acquired lung abscess attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. penumoniae) which extended into the chest wall. The patient was admitted to our hospital with a painful mass on the left anterior chest wall. A contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography scan showed a lung abscess in the left upper lobe which extended into the chest wall. Surgical debridement of the chest wall abscess and percutaneous transthoracic tube drainage of the lung abscess were performed. A culture of the drainage specimen yielded S. pneumoniae. The patient showed a remarkable improvement after the initiation of intravenous antibiotic therapy.

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