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V Boussemaere1, G Cammu, P Vercauter
1Emergency Medicine, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium.
Acta Chirurgica Belgica
|February 27, 2010
Abstract:
We present a case of descending necrotising mediastinitis in a healthy young patient, complicated by pneumonia of the right inferior lobe of the lung with parapneumonic effusions. We describe a successful outcome following adequate antibiotics, effective surgical drainage by thoracoscopy and parasternotomy, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
