[Clinical manifestations and therapeutic tactics in acute lung abscess].

Under analysis were data of 107 patients with acute pulmonary abscesses. Such patients need a complex intensive conservative therapy. Indications for surgical treatment of acute pulmonary abscesses were considered to be concomitant complications (hemorrhage, pyopneumothorax, empyema of the pleura), atypical forms badly differentiated from a cavitary form of carcinoma, as well as suppurative processes not treated conservatively and disposed to turn into a chronic stage.