ACTINOMYCOSIS OF THE THORAX AND ABDOMEN

摘要: EXTENSIVE visceral actinomycosis has for many years been considered to be a severe disease with uniformly poor, if not hopeless, prognosis. 1 In recent emphasis placed by some authors on the importance of adequate surgical measures in alleviation this disease. 2 Others 3 have emphasized use chemotherapeutic agents. Reports during past few successful treatment cases abdominal or thoracic viscera far outnumber those reported previous decades. Kolouch and Peltier, 4 reviewing literature, summarized according type received (table). Statistically, percentage patients listed as cured improved is wholly significant, numbers are small overlapping treatments employed allow only relative evaluation. Peltier pointed out, however, that significant trends apparent, one which decreasing mortality rate