Related Experiment Videos
Pleural empyema: An unusual presentation of esophageal perforation
A Solomonov1, L A Best, L Goralnik
1Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Rambam Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases
|August 26, 1999
Abstract:
A 67-year-old patient presented with pleural empyema as the sole manifestation of thoracic esophageal perforation, 2 weeks after accidental fish bone ingestion. Nonspecific chest pain and general deterioration, unusual presenting symptoms in themselves, accounted for the extreme delay in the diagnosis. The empyema was treated surgically, and the esophageal perforation conservatively. Despite the poor prognostic factors, the patient recovered completely after 50 days in hospital.