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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Case Report
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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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-31199442011-06-30 Non-traumatic anterior mediastinal abscess in childhood Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Virendra Bishnoi, Amit Chadha, Rajiv J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report 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. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3119944/ /pubmed/21731239 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.78138 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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