The Treatment of Abscesses and Fistulas in Children After Injections of Medicinals
Abstract
THE TREATMENT OF ABSCESSES AND FISTULAS IN CHILDREN AFTER INJECTIONS OF MEDICINALS -USSR- Following is the translation of an article by L. A. VoroKhobov from the Clinical Hospital for Children imeni N. F. Filatova (Chief Physician, M. N. Kalutina) and the Clinic of Children's Surgery (Prof S. D. Ternovskiy -- Head of the Chair) of the II Moscow Medical Institute imeni N. I. Pirogov, in Sovetskaya meditsina (Soviet Medicine), No 8, Moscow, 1960, pages 94-97./ In intramuscular and subcutaneous injections of various medicinal end prophylactic drugs, especially penicillin and diphtheria anatoxin, so-called "cold abscesses" are formed in children in some cases at the point of injection. Their etiology has not been definitely explained up to the present time. A number of authors suggest that they are of infectious origin. According to data of the A1l-Union Scientific Research Institute of Medical and Biological Drugs imeni L. A. Tarasevich, where careful pathohistological (Ya. L. Rapoport) and bacteriological (L. I. Nakhimson) research of abscesses and fistulas after injections of medicinals is being carried out, they are represented as a "syringe disease" caused by incorrect injection techniques and an insufficient sterilization of instruments. The problem of an infectious agent also remains open. The possibility of infection by a variety of tubercular microbacteria is not excluded, especially as an morphological terms this process appears to be a chronic inflammation with the presence in a number of cases of tuberculoid structures. Rendu, Debre, and others express a similar opinion.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 24, 1961
- Accession Number
- ADA385243
Entities
People
- L. A. Vorokhobov
Organizations
- Joint Publications Research Service