A 76-year-old man on cancer immunotherapy developed a mixed Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Aspergillus fumigatus empyema with pneumothorax, exposing key diagnostic and therapeutic gaps.

Background: Open-window thoracostomy (OWT) is an effective life-saving treatment for refractory empyema. Nonetheless, the patients’ mental and physical suffering due to OWT is not minimal, and ...

Empyema is a medical term used for pus pockets that have accumulated inside a body cavity, for example, pleural space. This condition occurs when a bacterial infection remains untreated or if it does ...

Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, September 29, 1939. From the Surgical Service, Children's Hospital, Boston, and the departments of surgery and pediatrics, Harvard ...