...Claudia Ravaglia; Corrado Ghirotti; Silvia Puglisi; Sara Piciucchi; Carlo Gurioli; Elisabetta Fabbri; Fabio Sultani; Sabrina Martinello; Ruggero Massimo Corso; Stefano Maitan; Vittorio Sambri; Franco Stella; Venerino Poletti Background: Pleural empyema is associated with relevant morbidity...

.... The migration of an inhaled foreign body from the airways to the pleural space through a bronchopleural fistula is an exceptional event. We report a case of a pleural empyema consequent to an inhaled wooden skewer. CT scan and bronchoscopy were unable to identify the foreign body, due to its migration...

...Qi Zhang; Xi Wang; Yan Hu; Fang-Fang Guo; Kun-Yao Yu; Guang-Fa Wang Surgical intervention is occasionally required for the treatment of pleural empyema. Semirigid thoracoscopy is a safe and successful surgical approach utilized by interventional pulmonologists, conventionally utilizing flexible...

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...A. Solomonov; L.A. Best; L. Goralnik; A.E. Rubin; M. Yigla A 67-year-old patient presented with pleural empyema as the sole manifestation of thoracic esophageal perforation, 2 weeks after accidental fish bone ingestion. Nonspecific chest pain and general deterioration, unusual presenting symptoms...