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- Title
A Case of Empyema Necessitatis in a Child With Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Authors
Acar, Manolya; Sutcu, Murat; Akturk, Hacer Gundogdu; Topyildiz, Ezgi; Somer, Ayper; Erol, Oğuz Bulent; Erkose Genc, Gonca; Salman, Nuran
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of an 11 year old child with a recent occurrence of swelling on his chest wall because of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Topics discussed include intense material collection on left anterior thorax wall of the patient; application of fine-needle aspiration of the chest wall; and complications of empyema is in immunocompromised patients.
- Subjects
DRUG therapy for tuberculosis; TUBERCULOSIS complications; TUBERCULOSIS diagnosis; ANTITUBERCULAR agents; EMPYEMA; MYCOBACTERIUM tuberculosis; PLEURAL effusions; DISEASE complications; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 12, p1165
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1177/0009922815614355