SOME UNUSUAL THORACIC COMPLICATIONS OF TYPHOID AND SALMONELLA INFECTIONS
Authors: G R MINOR, M L WHITE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1946)

Article1 January 1946SOME UNUSUAL THORACIC COMPLICATIONS OF TYPHOID AND SALMONELLA INFECTIONSGEORGE R. MINOR, M.D., M. LAWRENCE WHITE JR., M.D.GEORGE R. MINOR, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, M. LAWRENCE WHITE JR., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-24-1-27 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe authors have had the opportunity of observing a case of typhoid empyema with bronchopleural fistula, and a case of Salmonella costal chondritis. They have also had access to the records of one case each, of the following conditions: typhoid costal osteochondritis; pure typhoid empyema; typhoid lung abscess; and Salmonella empyema. We believe that these complications are sufficiently rare to justify reporting in some detail.PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF TYPHOID FEVERFifty years ago the French clinicians were singularly aware of some of the pulmonary and pleural complications of typhoid fever. In 1884, Sahli1reported the isolation of the typhoid bacillus...Bibliography1. SAHLI : Quoted by ROBINSON.9 Google Scholar2. JEHLE L: Ueber den Nachweis von Typhusbacillen in Sputum der Typhuskranker, Wien. klin. Wchnschr., 1902, xxv, 232. Google Scholar3. MOURIQUAND G: Note sur les complications pulmonaires, observées au cours de l'epidémie de typhoïdes et d'états typhoïdes de l'hiver 1914-15 à l'hôpital temporaire Landrement-Blandan à Nancy, Lyons méd., 1915, cxxiv, 217. Google Scholar4. MINET J: Congestions pulmonaires à bacilles paratyphiques, Bull. de l'acad. de méd., 1916, lxxv, 196. Google Scholar5. CAUSSADETARDIEU GA: Quelques complications pulmonaires au cours et au décours de la fiévre typhoïde, Bull. et mém. 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