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SUBMITTER: Edwards P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7030981 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Respiratory medicine case reports 20200211
With contemporary cystic fibrosis (CF) care, a lung abscess is an uncommon occurrence. We describe a case of a staphylococcal lung abscess in a teenage girl with CF who presented with a two-week history of non-specific malaise followed by two days of left posterior chest pain and fever. A chest radiograph was consistent with a left sided pulmonary abscess, which was confirmed on a CT scan of the chest. The abscess was drained under ultrasound guidance and cultured methicillin-sensitive <i>Staphy ...[more]