Cervico-Facial Actinomycosis. Penicillin Therapy

Cervico-Facial Actinomycosis: Epidemiological and Clinical Comments

In a retrospective investigation performed in the department of Surgical Odontostomatology of Palermo University Polyclinic from 1997-2006, the authors examined 12 cases of cervico-facial actinomycosis, taking into consideration age range, gender distribution, predisposing factors and symptoms. In concordance with reports in literature, they found that the disease was perimandibular in 65%, the...

Advanced actinomycosis of the spine treated with penicillin and streptomycin.

Actinomvcosis seldom involves the vertebral column. Only four out of 670 patients with actinomycosis reviewed by Sanford and Voelker (1925) had rib or vertebral involvement. It is clear that in the past the diagnosis has been difficult and that tile condition has often been mistaken for Potts disease. Among the reports of sixty cases of mycosis of the vertebral column Meyer and Gall (1935) foun...

Penicillin Therapy

Penicillin Therapy

Tlis book was written in an effort to simplify and condense the literature relating to reflexes. There are 465 references listed at the end of the book, and under the discussion of each reflex the literature is reviewed. An example of the effort to simplify the terminology used in naming reflexes is interesting. A diagram of the foot and ankle shows the places from which a tap with the reflex h...

Penicillin Therapy