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KMID : 0376419790030000265
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Chonbuk University Medical Journal
1979 Volume.3 No. 0 p.265 ~ p.268
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Clinical Observation of Pyothorax (48 Cases).
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Abstract
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This is a clinical evaluation of the predisposing diseases and the clinical findings of pyothorax admitted at the Ieonbug University Hospital and Gun-San Provincial Hospital from Jan. 1978.
1) There were 42 males and´6 females and the twenties showed the highest incidence in age distribution.
2) Pulmonary tuberculosis was considered to be cause of pleural empyema in 22 patients, lung abscess and paragonimiasis in 5 respectively, liver abscess in 2 and pneumonia was the precipitating cause for empyema in all 6 children under the age of 15 years. Etiology: was unknown in 8 patients.
3) The cultured organisms were staphylococcus aureus in 11 patients, pseudomonas in 10, streptococcus in 6, and sterile culture was obtained in 17 patients.
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