Complications
Known complications include:
- bronchial:
- bronchiectasis
- bronchial stenosis
- rupture with spread of infection
- haemorrhage and a bronchopleural fistula
- parenchymal:
- overdistension of the alveoli
- collapse
- secondary infection
- pleural - empyema
- distant spread: sepsis, brain abscesses, mediastinitis.
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