Open AccessHerniation of unruptured tuberculous lung abscess into chest wall without pleural or bronchial spillage
Author(s) -
Bharti Chogtu,
Aswini Kumar Mohapatra,
Mohan K Manu,
Rajendra K. Srivastava
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/0970-2113.85695
Subject(s) - medicine , chest pain , tuberculosis , lung , abscess , thorax (insect anatomy) , radiology , lung abscess , lesion , surgery , pathology , anatomy
A 22-year-old unmarried man presented to the chest outpatient department with a history of productive cough of two-month duration. He also complained of pain and swelling on the anterior aspect of right side of chest of one-month duration. Imaging studies of the thorax, including chest roentgenography and computerized tomography, revealed an unruptured lung abscess which had herniated into the chest wall. Culture of pus aspirated from the chest wall swelling grew Mycobacterium tuberculosis. He was diagnosed to have a tuberculous lung abscess which had extended into the chest wall, without spillage into the pleural cavity or the bronchial tree. Antituberculosis drugs were prescribed, and he responded to the treatment with complete resolution of the lesion.