Paediatria Croatica, Vol. 53 No. 1, 2009.
Case report
PRIMARY LUNG ABSCESS IN AN INFANT
Miljenko Raos
; Dječja bolnica Srebrnjak
Jelica Marković
Slavica Dodig
Abstract
Lung abscess in infancy is rare. Primary lung abscess appears in formerly healthy children, and secondary lung abscess appears in children with an associated chronic disease. An eight and a half month old female infant is presented with primary lung abscess. The abscess was cured two weeks after intravenous antibiotic therapy. A small residual abscess cavity was cured one month after the therapy was finished. The causal bacterium was not isolated.
Keywords
Descriptors: LUNG ABSCESS – diagnosis, radiography, drug therapy; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS – therapeutic use
Hrčak ID:
41166
URI
Publication date:
3.7.2009.
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