RUPTURE OF ENCAPSULATED EMPYEMA INTO THE PLEURAL CAVITY

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Abstract
Following the recent epidemic of influenza at the base hospital, Camp Meade, Md., there were observed two cases that presented a syndrome altogether new to those of us who saw them. We are familiar with cases of empyema rupturing into a bronchus, and have read of cases rupturing externally, but we have nowhere seen described the striking condition brought about by the rupture of an abscess or encapsulated empyema into the pleural cavity. The serious nature of such an occurrence, as shown by the death of one patient in thirteen hours and the desperate condition of the other when operated on, the probable fatal outcome of all cases undiagnosed, and the possibility of saving the patient's life by a prompt recognition of the condition coupled with surgical interference, makes the report of these two cases desirable. Occurring as a sequel of the influenzal pneumonia that has swept through all the

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