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A STUDY OF SIXTY CASES

CHESTER S. KEEFER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1938;62(1):109-136.

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Acute and chronic infections of the mediastinum are of sufficient frequency and importance to deserve more attention than has been given them. This seems especially significant since with the development and improvement of surgical technic it is possible in many cases to bring about striking improvement and even complete cure. During the past few years I have had the opportunity of observing a group of patients with various types of mediastinitis, and at this time I wish to review this experience and report on other patients who have been observed at the Boston City Hospital.

PATHOGENESIS OF MEDIASTINITIS

Infection of the mediastinal tissues is always secondary to infection of the various structures of the mediastinum or to infection extending to the mediastinal tissues from other locations, such as the neck, spine, lungs, pleurae or abdomen. The paths of extension of foci of infection in the neck and mediastinum have been . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Nov. 1, 1937.

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