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A case of empyema and a posterior mediastinal abscess after an iliopsoas abscess secondary to Crohn’s disease

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan

    Nozomu Motono, Makoto Tanaka, Yuichiro Machida, Sumiko Maeda, Katsuo Usuda & Motoyasu Sagawa

  2. Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada, Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan

    Yasuto Tomita & Takeo Kosaka

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Motono, N., Tanaka, M., Machida, Y. et al. A case of empyema and a posterior mediastinal abscess after an iliopsoas abscess secondary to Crohn’s disease. Int J Colorectal Dis 31, 709–710 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-015-2198-6

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