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Nonbacterial Regional Lymphadenitis

WORTH B. DANIELS, M.D.; FRANK G. MacMURRAY, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1951;88(6):736-751.

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INCIDENT to his studies on tularemia in 1932, Dr. Lee Foshay¹ in Cincinnati first recognized a disease entity occurring in persons who had been scratched by or had had contact with cats. This illness was characterized by the appearance of an initial cutaneous lesion at the site of a scratch, followed by the development of regional lymphadenitis which frequently proceeded to suppuration. The aspirated pus was sterile, and serologic studies gave negative reaction for tularemia. During the past 20 years Foshay has studied "a score or more" of these patients, but his attempts at elucidating the etiology were unrewarding. He has not reported his work.

In 1945, Dr. F. M. Hanger¹ in New York had a paronychia after gardening. There was a cat in the household, but Hanger had no history of scratch. Sterile suppurative regional adenitis associated with fever and constitutional symptoms ensued. An antigen prepared from . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

Footnotes
Read in abstract at the Sixty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Atlantic City, May 1, 1951.

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