Purulent pleurisy
Purulent pleurisy is an accumulation of pus in the pleural cavity with secondary compression of the lung tissue. Purulent pleurisy are secondary diseases, more often they complicate inflammatory diseases of the soft – croupous or post-influenza pneumonia. There are para- and metapneumonic purulent pleurisy. Parapneumonic pleurisy complicates pneumonia at the time of its height, and metapneumonic or postpneumonic […]