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  • Title: [Acute pneumonia in patients with multiple primary malignant neoplasms].
    Author: Tugova IuE, Nonikov VE, Denisov LE.
    Journal: Ter Arkh; 1993; 65(10):50-5. PubMed ID: 8296235.
    Abstract:
    The authors review 35 cases of acute pneumonia (AP) in 30 patients with multifocal cancer. As a rule, AP was focal, ran a moderate or severe course, arose acutely with high temperature, chill, cough, purulent discharge. Auscultation registered weak vesicular breath, moist rale. Among pathological agents prevailed associations of pneumococci with gram-negative flora. AP resolved for 3-4 weeks in 2/3 of the patients, the rest of them developed lingering disease. From the point of view of antibacterial drugs efficacy, wide-spectrum drugs are preferable.
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