Staphylococcal pneumonia associated with 'tropical pyomyositis'.
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[Tropical pyomyositis].
Historically, first case of TP was described by Scriba in 1885, though some authors believe that Virchow was the first one to describe this entity. Since TP was predominantly seen in tropics, various terms like tropical pyomyositis, myositis tropicans, and tropical myositis are used, but nowadays this entity is no longer confined only to tropics. Levine in 1971, reported the first case of TP fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.70.822.309-a