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Empyema and mediastinitis complicating retropharyngeal abscess
M Watanabe1, Y Ohshika, T Aoki
1Department of Surgery II, National Defense Medical College, Saitama, Japan.
Thorax
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
A 21 year old man with a retropharyngeal abscess complained of right sided chest pain, and chest radiography and thoracocentesis revealed an empyema. A computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a posterior mediastinal abscess communicating with the right pleural cavity. Emergency thoracotomy was performed and the mediastinal abscess and empyema were drained.