1. Non-traumatic anterior mediastinal abscess in childhood.
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Kumar, Sandeep, Kumar, Virendra, Bishnoi, Amit, and Chadha, Rajiv
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ABSCESS treatment , *ANTIBIOTICS , *BLOOD testing , *CHEST X rays , *MICROBIAL sensitivity tests , *OPERATIVE surgery , *TOMOGRAPHY , *ULTRASONIC imaging , *EQUIPMENT & supplies , *CONTRAST media , *EARLY medical intervention , *CHILDREN ,MEDIASTINUM surgery - Abstract
Anterior mediastinal abscesses (MAs) due to a non-traumatic etiology are extremely rare in childhood and only 13 such cases have been reported in the literature. We report a 5-year-old male child with disseminated staphylococcal infection and a large non-traumatic anterior MA, who had a successful recovery after surgical drainage of the abscess. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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