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Non-traumatic anterior mediastinal abscess in childhood

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 r...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sandeep, Kumar, Virendra, Bishnoi, Amit, Chadha, Rajiv
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731239
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.78138
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Sumario: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.