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Autopsy of a patient who suffered from croupous pneumonia and died from pneumococcal sepsis revealed 900 ml of turbid greenish-yellow liquid in the right pleural cavity. Pleural leaves are dull, plephoric. Name the clinicopathological form of inflammation in the pleural cavity:

Answer options

  1. Fibrinous inflammation
  2. Phlegmon
  3. Empyema
  4. Acute abscess
  5. Chronic abscess
Correct answer

Empyema

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