Complicated course of local mycobacterial infection in an immunocompetent girl.
A complicated course of cervical Mycobacterium avium adenitis in a healthy 3-year-old girl is described. A retropharyngeal and a parotic abscess developed resulting in a salivary fistula. Surgery was not judged possible but chemotherapy was given for 6 months during which the infection healed. It is not clear whether the regression was spontaneous or caused by the therapy.
Lundberg
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Danderyd's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Eriksson
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M
Petrini
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B
D000038:Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015270:Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Infection / Q000150:complications*; D010305:Parotid Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D012467:Salivary Gland Fistula / Q000209:etiology