1 The Boston Floating Hospital (for Infants and Children) and the Department of Surgery, Tufts College Medical School, Boston.
Although these results were determined in a small group of patients, it is believed they indicate that surgical excision is the best treatment for cervical tuberculous adenitis. Streptomycin, which may fail as a lone therapeutic agent, may be of value as a postoperative adjunct to surgery.
Submitted on January 22, 1952