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A patient with bilateral hydrothorax has repeatedly undergone pleural puncture on both sides. After a regular puncture the patient's condition has become worse: he presents with fever, chest pain. The next day, the attending physician performing pleural puncture revealed some pus on the right. What is the mechanism of acute right-sided empyema development?

Answer options

  1. Contact-and-aspiration
  2. Hematogenous
  3. Aerial
  4. Lymphogenous
  5. Implantation
Correct answer

Contact-and-aspiration

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