PRIMARY ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA, ETIOLOGY UNKNOWN: THE AVERAGE CLINICAL PICTURE BASED ON THIRTY-SEVEN ORIGINAL CASES
Authors: Richard H. Smith
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1944)

Article1 June 1944PRIMARY ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA, ETIOLOGY UNKNOWN: THE AVERAGE CLINICAL PICTURE BASED ON THIRTY-SEVEN ORIGINAL CASESRICHARD H. SMITHRICHARD H. SMITHSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-20-6-890 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe increasing prevalence of an atypical form of primary pneumonia has commanded more and more attention during the past four years. Much of the literature on the subject is puzzling or contradictory. There is no "single criterion—clinical or laboratory—which characterizes the syndrome."1Diagnosis is arrived at by a process of eliminating similar diseases of known etiology and attempting to check the patient's signs and symptoms against those of groups of cases previously reported. Unfortunately the literature on the subject is still too fresh for the relative value of each sign and symptom to have been worked out. Yet from the...Bibliography1. DINGLEFINLAND JHM: Primary atypical pneumonias of unknown etiology, New England Jr. Med., 1942, ccxxvii, 378-385. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. Official Statements: Primary atypical pneumonia, etiology unknown, War Med., 1942, ii, 330-333. Google Scholar3. REIMANN HA: An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: a disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1938, cxi, 2377-2384. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. KORNBLUMREIMANN KHA: The roentgenological aspects of an epidemic of acute respiratory tract infection, Am. Jr. Roentgenol., 1940, xliv, 333. Google Scholar5. SMILEYSHOWACRELEEFERRIS DREEWFHW: Acute interstitial pneumonitis, a new disease entity, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1939, cxii, 1901-1904. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. LONGCOPE WT: Bronchopneumonia of unknown etiology (variety X). A report of thirty-two cases with two deaths, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1940, lxvii, 268-305. Google Scholar7. KNEELANDSMETANA YHF: Current bronchopneumonia of unusual character and undetermined etiology, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1940, lxvii, 229-267. Google Scholar8. GOODRICHBRADFORD BEHA: The recognition of virus type pneumonia, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1942, cciv, 163. Google Scholar9. LOWELL FC: Recent advances in the treatment of pneumonia, Med. Clin. N. Am., 1942, xxvi, 1483-1499. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. STOKESKENNEYSHAW JASDR: Quoted by DINGLE and FINLAND.1 Google Scholar11. FRANCISMAGILL TTP: Quoted by REIMANN.3 Google Scholar12. WEIRHORSFALL JMFL: The recovery from patients with acute pneumonitis of a virus causing pneumonia in the mongoose, Jr. Exper. Med., 1940, lxxii, 595-610. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. GREENELDRIDGE DMFG: Primary atypical pneumonia, etiology unknown, Mil. Surg., 1942, xci, 503-517. Google Scholar14. BOWEN A: Acute influenza pneumonitis, Am. Jr. Roentgenol., 1935, xxxiv, 168-174. Google Scholar15. REIMANNHAVENS HAWP: An epidemic disease of the respiratory tract, Arch. Int. Med., 1940, lxv, 138-150. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. MURRAY ME: Atypical bronchopneumonia of unknown etiology, possibly due to a filterable virus, New England Jr. Med., 1940, ccxxii, 565-573. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17. DANIELS WB: Bronchopneumonia of unknown etiology in a girls' school, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1942, cciii, 263-276. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Norfolk, Virginia*Read before the Norfolk County Medical Society, November, 1942. Received for publication January 4, 1943. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie PneumonienAcute respiratory disease with special reference topathogenesis, classification, and diagnosisClinical variations in primary atypical pneumoniaVirus pneumonia 1 June 1944Volume 20, Issue 6Page: 890-902KeywordsEtiologyPneumoniaSigns and symptoms ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 June 1944 PDF downloadLoading ...