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Surgical Considerations in Cases in Infants and Children

V. L. WILLMAN, M.D.; J. EUGENE LEWIS, JR., M.D.; C. ROLLINS HANLON, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1961;83(1):93-97.

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The serious morbidity and mortality of staphylococcal pneumonia in infants and children is associated with a high incidence of complications requiring surgical management. These complications include tension pneumatocele, residual pneumatocele, pneumothorax, and acute and chronic empyema.^{2,11,12,14,24} Although the management of such complications has been repeatedly discussed in the past,* further emphasis is justified by the current, relatively greater, incidence of staphylococcal pneumonia^3,11-13 and the desirability of prompt definitive management of these patients by a broad segment of the profession.¹⁸ A review of 12 recent instances of complicated staphylococcal pneumonia provides material to illustrate the importance of early drainage for such complications.

We shall not attempt a detailed presentation of the clinical picture in each of the 12 patients. They varied in age from one month to 4 years, all but one being less than a year old, with an average age of 9 months. All showed empyema . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS

From the Department of Surgery, St. Louis University.

Footnotes
Read at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Western Surgical Association, Detroit, Dec. 3, 1960.

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