Appropriate management includes chest tube drainage (tube thoracostomy). Treatment of empyemas includes antibiotics, complete pleural fluid drainage, and reexpansion of the lung. Other treatments include the use of decortication.
Parapneumonic effusion
Pleurisy
Pleural empyema
Pulmonary consolidation
Pleural effusion
Malignant pleural effusion
Pulmonary infiltrate
Subpulmonic effusion