title: Non-traumatic anterior mediastinal abscess in childhood.
abstract: Anterior mediastinal abscesses (MAs) due to a non-traumatic etiology are extremely rare in childhood and only 13 such cases have been reported in the literature. We report a 5-year-old male child with disseminated staphylococcal infection and a large non-traumatic anterior MA, who had a successful recovery after surgical drainage of the abscess.
authors: Division of PICU and Emergency, Departments of Pediatrics, Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India.
authors: Sandeep
authors: S
authors: Kumar
authors: Virendra
authors: V
authors: Kumar
authors: Amit
authors: A
authors: Bishnoi
authors: Rajiv
authors: R
authors: Chadha