Pages Below:
| |
Lung Abscess
Causes
- aspiration
- reduced cough reflex
- dental infection
- foreign bodies
- food
- vomit
- Bronchial carcinoma
- peripheral tumour
- distal consolidation and breakdown
- central necorsis
- septic pulmonary infarction
- pulmonary embolism in drug abusers
- Wegener's granulomatosis
- tuberculosis
- Staph. aureus pneumonia
Symptoms
- acute onset
- cough
- malaise
- night sweats
- fever
- shivering
- sputum
- pleurisy
Signs
- variable
- often located
- lower lobe, apical segment
- upper lobe, posterior segment
- crackles
- clubbing
- bronchial breathing
- pleural rub
- dull to percussion
Investigation
Treatment
- antibiotics
- postural drainage
- surgery
|