Question 21 (part 2) · LEK · Pleural empyema
In pleural empyema the treatment of choice is:
- A. suction drainage of the pleura and culture-based antibiotic treatment.
- B. removal of fibrino-purulent masses by means of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery or open thoracotomy.
- C. thoracoplasty.
- D. myoplasty or omentoplasty.
- E. none of the above.
Hint
Think of the first-line approach to an acute empyema while the pus is still liquid, before fibrin organisation.
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