Chronic Typhoid Abscess of Body Wall

Calcification of the Breast following a Typhoid Abscess

1. In a patient with typhoid fever, who had taken, during eleven days, 132 grammes of lactate of calcium by the mouth, as well as 5 grammes of chloride of calcium subcutaneously, there developed, eleven days after the subcutaneous infusion, a large abscess of the breast from which Bacillus typhosus and Staphylococcus aureus were obtained on culture. The abscess was opened and the wound packed w...

Empyema due to splenic abscess in typhoid fever.

to damage by cytotoxic drugs. A study of childhood-cancer survivors, however, showed no evidence of a raised rate of spontaneous abortions or malformations in the progeny of men after treatment with various cytotoxic agents.' On the other hand, a recent report has described two cases of severe malformations after chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukaemia in two men.' In our case the lack of ...

Tuberculosis Abscess of the Chest Wall

A 42-year-old male presented in June of 2011 with nocturnal fevers, night sweats, an 8-kg weight loss, and a cutaneous right chest wall mass. In March of 2013, a computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a 54 × 18 × 26-mm right lower lobe mass with peripheral calcifications, and in May of 2013, he was admitted for a segmental lobectomy, in which histologic examination of the pulmonary tiss...

Salmonella typhimurium abscess of the chest wall

PATIENT Male, 73 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Salmonella typhimurium abscess of the chest wall Symptoms: - MEDICATION Ciprofloxacin Clinical Procedure:- Specialty: Infectious Diseases. OBJECTIVE Unusual clinical course. BACKGROUND Non-typhoid Salmonella extra-intestinal infections usually develop in infants and in adult patients with pre-existing predisposing conditions. Blood stream infections and u...

spigelian hernia presenting as abdominal wall abscess