Thoracoscopic evaluation of 129 cases having undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions.

Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure used in diagnostic and therapeutic applications for pleural diseases. In this study, we describe our experience in the outcome and analysis of thoracoscopy in undiagnosed pleural effusion presenting to our center.

Materials And Methods: This is a prospective study conducted over last 2 years.

Injection site abscess due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis following DPT vaccination.

Injection site abscesses are not so uncommon and usually bacterial in origin. Very occasionally, these are due to mycobacteria, particularly rapidly growing non-tuberculous mycobacteria. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is rarely implicated as a cause of injection site abscess as documented in this report following DPT vaccination.