Lung abscess

Introduction: Lung abscess

Lung abscess: Pus (abscess) in the lung. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Lung abscess is available below.

Symptoms of Lung abscess

• Fever
• Malaise
• Chills
• Sweating
• Cough

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Home Diagnostic Testing

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Medical Textbooks Online about Lung abscess

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Wrongly Diagnosed with Lung abscess?

• Misdiagnosis of Lung abscess
• Underlying causes of Lung abscess (possibly wrongly diagnosed)

Misdiagnosis and Lung abscess

Chronic lung diseases hard to diagnose: Some of the chronic lung diseases are difficult to diagnose. Even the well-knowns conditions such as asthma or lung cancer often fail to be diagnosed early. Some of the chronic lung diseases with diagnostic difficulties include asthma (perhaps surprisingly), COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, mesothelioma, smoker's cough, AIDS-related respiratory conditions (see AIDS), chronic pneumonia, and other respiratory diseases. Rare possibilities include diseases like psittacosis (bird-related lung infection). See other types of chronic lung diseases....read more »

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Causes of Lung abscess

• Foreign body
• Pneumonia
• Blood poisoning
• Tuberculosis
• Lung wound

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More information about causes of Lung abscess:

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• Lung abscess as a complication caused by other conditions
• Lung abscess as a symptom
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Treatments for Lung abscess

• Antibiotics
• Postural drainage
• Surgical drainage

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Definitions of Lung abscess:

A complication of a localized area of pneumonia or when a neoplasm becomes necrotic and contains purulent material that cannot drain easily from the area because of partial or complete bronchial obstruction. (Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 12th ed, p1068) - (Source - Diseases Database)