Two cases of thoracic actinomycosis in children.
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Most textbooks of paediatrics consider actinomycosis a rare infection in children and few collective studies or case reports in children have been reported. Pyogenic infection of the chest is common in Malaya and Singapore, but there has been no recorded case of actinomycosis in children so far, and it is because of the rarity of the condition that it is felt worth while to report these two cases seen during the past two years.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 38 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1963