Cervicofacial actinomycosis is a chronic suppurative and granulomatous infection that may reside for years and recur with sudden onset. It is the second most common type of actinomycosis and could be caused by trauma or infection. We report a draining actinomycotic sinus tract with extraordinary thickness that occurred owing to a long-standing chronic periapical infection of an extracted upper ...

A Hixdu woman, aged 30 years, came to the hospital with severe pain in the ear, temperature 102.4?F., and headache. The middle and external ear were swollen, red, painful and tender. The patient could not lie on the affected side and was in a grave condition. She was given opening medicine, fever mixture and hot fomentation, and the swelling was painted with tincture of iodine and ichthyol, and...

For purpose of discussion the entity of bronchopulmonary suppuration must be better defined anatomically. With the advent of improved knowledge and standardization of the bronchopulmonary segments1 we may assume that the segment be considered the pathological unit of suppurative disease in the lung. Larger areas of pathology are made up of two or more segments up to the lobar aggregate of the c...