Case Report on Pulmonary Gangrene and Necrotizing Infection

A 59-year-old male patient with a history of chronic alcohol abuse and gastric resection is described. The report details a fatal case of pulmonary gangrene, including imaging findings of bilateral cavitations and autopsy confirmation of pulmonary infarction and bilateral pyothorax. Authored by Tatjana Adzic-Vukicevic and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Study the clinical progression of pulmonary gangrene based on the detailed case narrative.
• Analyze risk factors for fulminant infectious destruction based on the patient's history of alcohol abuse and gastric resection.
• Review imaging and autopsy correlations for pulmonary infarction and secondary infection based on the described findings.

Strengths

• Includes a detailed clinical description of a specific patient case.
• Provides autopsy-confirmed pathological findings.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single case report (54.0 KB PDF), representing a very limited scope.
• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting structured analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Clinical case report authored by Tatjana Adzic-Vukicevic.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 04:37:25; freshness should be verified.