added text. , , Part I deals with the purulent nasal discharges of infancy and of those associated with the "exanthemata, the nasal manifestations of constitutional disease, and the pathology ot the nasopharyngeal mucosa. But the author devotes the bulk of the book to Part II, in which his aim is to five a concise and practical account of the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of chronic suppura...

The conditions we will consider include suppurative pneumonitis, lung abscess and gangrene, infected lung cysts and bronchiectasis. Spontaneous resolution of the first three conditions and complete amelioration of symptoms in the last two-even in the inevitable persistence of gross anatomical deformity-occurs frequently. Accordingly active surgical intervention is withheld until it becomes obvi...

THE diagnosis of subphrenic abscesses can be notoriously difficult. This fact is well expressed by the well known aphorism: 'Pus somewhere, pus nowhere else, pus under the diaphragm'. Even more puzzling can be the features when complications, which occur relatively f.requently, dominate the clinical picture. The situation of the subphrenic spaces, hidden under the rigid concavity of the ribs an...

A 70-year-old man with a history of chronic middle and external ear suppuration presenting with acute meningitis due to Bacteroides uniformis is described. Anaerobic organisms including Bacteroides species were cultured from the affected external auditory meatus. Administration of metronidazole led to complete clinical recovery and a cholesteatoma was subsequently surgically evacuated. Chronic ...

objective brain abscesses represent organized foci of suppuration within the parenchyma. here we report a 3 month-old girl with a very huge complicated cerebral abscess, and the course of treatment given. the patient's recovery was excellent. the follow up mri showed only subtle porencephalic changes as the only parenchymal sequelae, which may be due to cns plasticity in infants.