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[Purulent pleurisy revealing an esophageal diverticulum]
C Pouchelle1, Y Martinat, J F Cordier
1Hôpital Cardiovasculaire et Pneumologique Louis-Pradel, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon.
Revue Des Maladies Respiratoires
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report a very rare case of a purulent pleurisy which was revealed to be caused by an oesophageal diverticulum. The pleuro-pulmonary infection probably followed the inhalation of septic material which refluxed from an oesophageal diverticulum into the trachea. This was suggested by a barium swallow which showed the transit of the barium into the trachea during swallowing movements.