Pediatric Lung Abscess: a Retrospective Review of 22 Cases

Background: lung abscess is a rare and jeopardizing disease. it is still capable of causing substantial mortality in children. materials and methods: we performed a retrospective study on 22 children during a 15-year period in our center. a total of 22 children were identified including 13 boys and 9 girls.results: five of them had primary lung abscess and seventeen had secondary type. thirteen of the cases (60%) were diagnosed only by ct-scan without any other evaluation. eighteen cases had been managed by antibiotic and the mean duration of antibiotic therapy was 12 days. surgical procedure was done in 4 cases.conclusion: gram positive organisms i.e streptococcus pneumonia and staphylococcus aureus were the most prevalent organisms involved in our cases. no complications and mortality were seen in our study.