Chest ACCP Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by WEBSTER, B. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by WEBSTER, B. H.
(Chest. 1956;30:315-325.)
© 1956 American College of Chest Physicians

Pulmonary Complications of Amebiasis

A REPORT OF SIX CASES

B. H. WEBSTER M.D., F.C.C.P.

Six cases of pulmonary amebiasis or 6.3 per cent among 95 patients with intestinal amebiasis are reported. Five occurred in recognizable hepatic amebiasis; one was an amebic bronchitis without demonstrable liver involvement. The diagnosis in the six cases were substantiated by the demonstration of Endamoeba histolytica trophozoites in the sputum. A bronchobiliary communication existed in four.

Five were successfully treated with chloroquine diphosphate, one with emetine hydrochloride. Surgery was not necessary in any of this series.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1956 by the American College of Chest Physicians.