Abstract
Ten cases of deep or subfascial abscesses of the abdominal wall in children have been presented.
The diagnosis rests upon the finding of a firm, irregular, non-fluctuant, usually nontender mass, moving with and involving the deeper or subfascial portion of the abdominal wall, and accompanied by a leucocytosis with an increase of the polymorphonuclear neutrophilic leucocytes in the differential count.
The infectious agent is usually Staph. aureus. The differential diagnosis is considered and the treatment indicated.
- Received March 1, 1948.
- Copyright © 1948 by the American Academy of Pediatrics
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