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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Main Authors: Sandeep Kumar (Author), Virendra Kumar (Author), Amit Bishnoi (Author), Rajiv Chadha (Author)
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Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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