Empyema necessitans: a rare presentation of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> infection
KEY POINTS A 28-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a painful subcutaneous mass on her left chest wall, which had been growing slowly over a period of 3 months. The mass was not associated with any overlying skin changes, and she did not have respiratory or constitutional
Authors
- Jenny Lu-Song (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4798-0021)
- Monique Raubenheimer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-1881)
- Vivek Dhawan
Institutions
- University of Alberta (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.240694
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.15