This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (18)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

AMBROSE G. HAMPTON, Jr., M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;95(1):137-140.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

PRIMARY varicella pneumonia in adults is a rare and severe disease. It is the purpose of this report to present a case, review the literature, and discuss the typical clinical picture.

REPORT OF A CASE

A 25-year-old Negro housewife was admitted to the University of Virginia Hospital on March 22, 1954, in acute respiratory distress. Four days prior to admission she had noted a vesicular eruption, beginning behind the ears and spreading over her face and upper chest. She consulted her local physician on the first day, who told her she had chickenpox and gave her acetylsalicylic acid (Aspirin). The following day she developed fever, dyspnea, and cough productive of profuse amounts of mucoid blood-flecked sputum. The rash spread over her entire chest, arms, and abdomen, and she had increasing dyspnea and prostration. Her physician referred her to the hospital on the fourth day of her illness. She had never . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Charlottesville, Va.

From the Department of Medicine, University of Virginia Hospital.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?