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Pulmonary air-space containing cavities signify major dissuade that hold gas exchange functions back and bring about recurrent suppuration.

The aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of percutaneous local inoculation of focal benign cavitary lung lesions with synthetic material (gelfoam) guided with chest computed tomography (CT) on the patient outcome based on clinical, laboratory, functional and radiological parameters.

A prospective simple randomized controlled trial was conducted on twenty eight patients with focal benign cavitary lung lesion less than 10 cm in diameter in whom surgical resection was contraindicated or refused. They were subdivided into two groups: group I (medically treated): 14 patients were followed up for three months with medical prophylaxis with quinolone plus clindamycin and group II (gelfoam inoculated): 14 patients percutaneous …