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- Title
Chest Wall Swelling in a Child With Pneumonia.
- Authors
McAteer, John; Wang, Laura A.; Chan, Alice; Raabe, Vanessa Natalie; Kamat, Pradip; Freeman, Ashley; Yildirim, Inci
- Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 2-year-old male presented with a chief complaint of fever, difficulty breathing, and diffuse erythematous rash. It mentions his medical examination revealed tenderness, swelling, and erythroderma over his anterior chest wall and also the chest computed tomography revealed sternal osteomyelitis with scattered sternal fragments layered within a surrounding abscess.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; OSTEOMYELITIS diagnosis; OSTEOMYELITIS treatment; ABSCESSES; BLOOD; CELL culture; CHEST X rays; COMPUTED tomography; CROUP; CLINICAL pathology; EXANTHEMA; FEVER; INTENSIVE care units; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA; SHOCK (Pathology); STAPHYLOCOCCUS aureus; STERNUM; TOXIC shock syndrome; TREATMENT effectiveness; CHEST (Anatomy); EXFOLIATIVE dermatitis; NASAL cannula
- Publication
Clinical Pediatrics, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 13, p1462
- ISSN
0009-9228
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1177/0009922819853004