A New Kind of Barrel Chest: Alcoholic Fermentation due to Candida albicans in a Pleural Effusion

MeSH terms

• Anastomotic Leak / etiology
• Anastomotic Leak / physiopathology*
• Candida albicans* / isolation & purification
• Candida albicans* / physiology
• Candidiasis* / diagnosis
• Candidiasis* / metabolism
• Chromatography, Gas / methods
• Critical Illness / therapy
• Esophagectomy / adverse effects
• Ethanol / analysis
• Ethanol / metabolism*
• Exudates and Transudates / metabolism
• Exudates and Transudates / microbiology
• Fermentation*
• Glucose / analysis
• Glucose / metabolism*
• Humans
• Male
• Pleural Effusion* / diagnosis
• Pleural Effusion* / etiology
• Pleural Effusion* / metabolism
• Pleural Effusion* / microbiology