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| Year : 2011 | Volume
: 16
| Issue : 2 | Page : 75-77 |
Non-traumatic anterior mediastinal abscess in childhood
Sandeep Kumar1, Virendra Kumar1, Amit Bishnoi1, Rajiv Chadha2
1 Division of PICU and Emergency, Departments of Pediatrics, Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
2 Division of PICU and Emergency, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Sandeep Kumar
B37 Mohan Park Navin Shahadra, Delhi-110 0 32
India
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.78138 PMID: 21731239
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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