Chronic chest wall sinus: an unusual presentation of typhoid.
A chronic discharging sinus of the chest wall is described in a 59-year-old Maori woman investigated as a typhoid contact. A heavy growth of Salmonella typhi organisms was cultured from the sinus, which had first appeared 13 years previously.
D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013896:Thoracic Diseases; D014435:Typhoid Fever