Gangrene of a lung - a progressing ichorization of a parenchyma of a lung under influence of a mephitic gangrene. Contributing diseases can be an alcoholism, a diabetes mellitis, an aspiration from the centers of a purulent infection in a mouth and a drink, a pneumonia at the weakened patients. Distinguish an acute gangrene within the limits of anatomic borders of a share (shares) without a restrictive piogenic environment and gangrenous, more often huge, an abscess.

Signs, current. Current acute. Fast, disintegration of a pulmonary tissue with the putrefactive, bloody sputum containing elastic fibers, fat acids, crystals of Leucinum and Thyrosinum. The arising purulent fever is quickly replaced by a purulent attrition, consciousness confused, the body temperature becomes subfebrile. Respiration usually weakened, less often amphoric above a cavity of disintegration.