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(Chest. 1948;14:41-45.)
© 1948 American College of Chest Physicians

Multiple Simultaneous Acute Putrid Lung Abscesses

ARTHUR H. AUFSES M.D., F.A.C.S.1

1 Associate Surgeon Montefiore Hospital, New York City. Associate Surgeon, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City.

Multiple simultaneous acute putrid lung abscesses are a rare clinical occurrence.

A case is reported in which three distinctly separate acute putrid lung abscesses appeared within a week of onset of symptoms.

The etiological factor was aspiration of infected particulate matter from the mouth.

Each abscess behaved differently—one perforated, causing a localized putrid pyopneumothorax which was drained; another disappeared spontaneously; and the third was treated by surgical drainage.

A complete cure was obtained.






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