OBJECTIVES To describe characteristics of children developing Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) lymphadenitis, and to evaluate needle aspiration treatment. METHODS Children developing BCG lymphadenitis following BCG vaccination in Al-Rass General Hospital, Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia were prospectively studied from October 2008 to September 2013. Non-suppurative BCG lymphadenitis was conservatively ma...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 1009 VOLUME 43__NOVEMBER 17, 2006 Suppurative salivary gland diseases are rare in neonates. Only 22 cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis are described in the English literature in the last 35 years(1). During a 9-year study by Sabatino, et al., five cases of neonatal suppurative parotitis were detected in 3624 hospital admissions. The relative risk of developing neonatal su...

Although infrequent, suppurative meningitis in the first month of life is now more commonly recognized than formerly. Barron (1918), reviewing meningitis in infancy nearly thirty years ago, found only thirty-nine cases of the suppurative form reported in children under three months, nineteen of which were in the newborn. From this he concluded that suppurative meningitis is a rare disease at th...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) lymphadenitis is the most common complication of BCG vaccination. Two forms of BCG lymphadenitis can be recognised in its natural course-simple or non-suppurative lymphadenitis, which usually regresses spontaneously over a period of few weeks, and suppurative BCG lymphadenitis distinguished by the development of fluctuations in the swelling, with erythema and oedem...

We report a case of fatal fungal peripheral suppurative thrombophlebitis, caused by Candida albicans, which was disseminated to the blood, lungs, eyes, and spine. Clinical suspicion and aggressive management are important in managing fungal peripheral suppurative thrombophlebitis. Early clinical suspicion is important in managing fungal peripheral suppurative thrombophlebitis, and radical excis...

Introduction Suppurative otitis media is still the most common ear disease in developing countries. Otogenic complications of this disease have decreased considerably because of the advent of antibiotics, and few rare complications have been encountered. Objective To report a case of a patient with scapular abscess and lumber cellulitis that had progressed from Bezold abscess as a complication ...

CLINICAL HISTORY. The patient (R. G. S.) was a man of 55. There was no relevant history of previous illness except a transient attack of pyrexia, vomiting, and diarrhoea in May, 1943. The patient's final illness, which lasted sixteen days, began on 23/7/43 with vague upper abdominal pain. Pulse and temperature were normal, and there were no abnormal physical signs. Two days later the pain becam...

Some cases of suppurative mesenteric adenitis have already been described in the literature but not associated with intussusception. We describe the case of a 3-year-old boy presenting to the department of surgery at the University Hospital of Lubumbashi with bowel obstruction. He was visited elsewhere, in the previous 12 days, for diarrhea, vomiting, fever, coma and treated for cerebral malari...

The parotid is the salivary gland most affected by inflammatory process. The authors reviewed the records of 36 patients with acute suppurative parotitis admitted between July 1996 and June 2002. All patients had unilateral swelling of the cheek that extended to the angle of the jaw; 23 had fever (64%) and 6 diabetes (17%). Even though Staphylococcus aureus is the usual pathogen in acute suppur...