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BRONCHOSCOPY WITH RECOVERY

T. R. GITTINS, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;11(5):614-615.

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M. E. M., aged 22 months, who was seen on May 15, 1929, choked while eating crackerjack, sixty-five days before. There were coughing and difficult breathing for two hours, and a peculiar rattle in the chest. The child had previously been in good health. Next day, cough and difficult breathing were present, with a temperature of 104 F. A physician was called and he diagnosed the case pneumonia. The child continued to run a high fever with cough and difficult breathing for nine days. There was still a peculiar rattle. The temperature was normal for three days but the wheezing respiration did not clear up. Again the fever returned with an increase in cough, night sweats, loss of weight and poor appetite. The second attack continued for about ten days and was diagnosed as another attack of pneumonia. Again the temperature became practically normal, and remained so for about nine . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SIOUX CITY, IOWA

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Sept. 16, 1929.

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