lung abscess
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lung disease characterized by microbial infection which causes a type of liquefactive necrosis of the pulmonary tissue and formation of cavities containing necrotic debris or fluid
Key facts
- Specialty
- Infectious disease , respirology
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Research
8,971 papers- Lung abscess in children.Paediatric respiratory reviews · 2007
- Lung abscess and empyema.Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery · 1995
- Lung abscess.The Western journal of medicine · 1976
- Lung abscess.The New England journal of medicine · 1948
- Large Lung Abscess Caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- CT chest in pneumonia with abscesses caverns and effusions d0.jpg
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- health specialty
- pulmonology
- ICPC 2 ID
- R83
- Commons category
- Lung abscess
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0025044
- ICD-9-CM
- 513.0
- risk factor
- smoking
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- necrosis
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Encyclopedic overview
Lung abscess is a type of liquefactive necrosis of the lung tissue and formation of cavities (more than 2 cm) containing necrotic debris or fluid caused by microbial infection.
This pus-filled cavity is often caused by aspiration, which may occur during anesthesia, sedation, or unconsciousness from injury. Alcoholism is the most common condition predisposing to lung abscesses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lung abscess” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.