This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

WILLIAM L. BUNTAIN, MD; STEPHEN R. MISSALL, MD
Departments of Surgery (Section of Pediatric Surgery) and Pediatrics Washoe Medical Center Reno, NV 89501

Am J Dis Child. 1976;130(3):335.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The prevention of infectious diseases by immunization is the most familiar application of preventive pediatrics,¹ and is now a routine practice during the first years of life. Currently recommended procedures for active immunization are widely accepted and are carried out with almost complete freedom from complications. However, complications can occur, and this report describes an unusual problem developing from a vaccination with "measles, mumps, and rubella virus vaccine, live."

Report of a Case.—A 19-month-old child was seen approximately 3 months after receiving a routine measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination in the right buttock. She had been well prior to the vaccination, and until approximately two weeks afterwards, at which time a small defect involving the subcutaneous fatty tissue was noticed in the right buttock at the vaccination site. This progressively increased in size; at the time of initial evaluation, there was a 32 x 18-mm atrophic-like defect, with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?