Koike Sachie, Miyazawa Masahisa, Kobayashi Nobutaka
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Japan Red Cross Society Nagano Hospital, 5-22-1, Wakasato, Nagano, Nagano 380-8582, Japan.
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1, Asahi, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan.
J Surg Case Rep. 2024 May 30;2024(5):rjae359. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjae359. eCollection 2024 May.
Septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint is a rare joint infection, and it sometimes leads to a chest wall abscess or mediastinitis. We report a case of a 70-year-old man who was diagnosed with empyema caused by an anterior chest wall abscess extended from septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint. It is very rare that arthritis causes empyema combined with an anterior chest wall abscess, and this is the first report of such a case. The patient was successfully treated with surgical drainage.
胸锁关节化脓性关节炎是一种罕见的关节感染,有时会导致胸壁脓肿或纵隔炎。我们报告一例70岁男性患者,其被诊断为由胸锁关节化脓性关节炎蔓延至前胸壁脓肿引起的脓胸。关节炎合并前胸壁脓肿导致脓胸极为罕见,这是首例此类病例报告。该患者通过手术引流成功治愈。