TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHronic emphysematous cavity of the lung
AU  - VOLLMER H
Y1  - 1949/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050772013
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 755
EP  - 758
VL  - 78
IS  - 5
N2  - THIS IS a twenty-one year follow-up report on what appears to be an emphysematous cavity first observed1 in the right lung of a 6 year old girl.REPORT OF A CASE 
    In November 1926, at the age of 5½ years, this child had fever, the temperature being between 38 and 39 C. (100.4 and 102.2 F.) for twelve days, and a nonproductive cough. Thereafter, her temperature remained normal. However, she made a slow recovery, continued to cough and appeared chronically ill. A roentgenogram of the chest in March 1927 showed a dense, round infiltration in the right hilar region. Since a cutaneous tuberculin test gave a "slightly positive" reaction after twenty-four hours, the family physician diagnosed the condition as primary tuberculosis.When I saw the child first, forty-eight hours after the cutaneous tuberculin test had been done, the skin reaction was negative. A second Pirquet test and a Mantoux
SN  - 0096-8994
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050772013
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030050772013
ER  -