Severe anaerobic necrotizing pneumonia complicated by pyopneumothorax and anaerobic monoarthritis due to Peptostreptococcus magnus

Respiration. 1991;58(3-4):223-5. doi: 10.1159/000195932.

Abstract

A rare case of a severe anaerobic necrotizing pneumonia complicated by pyopneumothorax and monoarthritis due to anaerobic Peptostreptococcus magnus is described in a 20-year-old soldier. The patient's immunological status was normal. There were no predisposing underlying factors, and he was treated successfully without any residual damage. To our knowledge, a similar case has never been reported in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Arthritis, Infectious / complications
  • Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology*
  • Bacteria, Anaerobic*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections* / diagnostic imaging
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections* / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Necrosis
  • Peptostreptococcus*
  • Pneumonia / complications
  • Pneumonia / microbiology*
  • Pneumonia / pathology
  • Pneumothorax / complications*
  • Pneumothorax / diagnostic imaging
  • Radiography