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A 52-year-old patient complains about pain in the right part of her chest, dyspnea, cough with a lot of foul-smelling albuminoid sputum in form of "meat slops". Objectively: the patient's condition is grave, cyanosis is present, breathing rate is 31/min, percussion sound above the right lung is shortened, auscultation revealed different rales. What is the most probable diagnosis?

Answer options

  1. Lung abscess
  2. Pleura empyema
  3. Chronic pneumonia
  4. Multiple bronchiectasis
  5. Lung gangrene
Correct answer

Lung gangrene

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