UMEM Educational Pearls

Title: An alcoholic with fever and cough

Category: Visual Diagnosis

Keywords: fever, cough, alcoholic (PubMed Search)

Posted: 5/7/2012 by Rob Rogers, MD (Updated: 3/5/2026)
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Question

An alcoholic patient presents with a cough, fever, and very foul smelling breath (worse than usual)

What's the diagnosis? And what are the risk factors?

 

 

Answer

Lung abcess

 

 

References

case compliments of our very own Zac Dezman


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