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KMID : 0383819850320040289
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
1985 Volume.32 No. 4 p.289 ~ p.293
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Paragonimus Westermani Empyema with Total Atelectasis of Right Lung
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유남수/Nam Soo Rhu
김준호/이경덕/김성광/김성진/안동일/서경용/조동일/김재원/Jun Ho Kim/Kyung Duk Lee/Sung Kwang Kim/Sung Jin Kim/Dong Il Ahn/Kyung Yong Suh/Dong Ill Cho/Jae Won Kim
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Abstract
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Twenty six years old man was referred to N.M.C. Department of Chest Medicine a
from local clinic due to bloody pleural effusion.
He had suffered from coughing, bloody expectoration and exertional dyspnea 4 months
ago and was treated with antituberculous drugs under the impression of tuberculous
pleurisy. Chest PA showed a compact hazy density in the right thorax with shifting of
the mediastinum to the left side.
Accidentally Paragonimus Westermani ova was found by routine sputum cytologic
examinations. Thoracentesis was done eleven timers with black colored bloody pleural
fluid total sum of 1100㎖ was obtained, resulting in partial expansion of right lung with
severe pleural thickening.
There fore decortication was done and the lung expanded completely P.W. empyema
with total atelectasis of the right lung was successfully treated by decortication.
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