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A CLINICAL AND ROENTGENOGRAPHIC STUDY

JEROME L. KOHN, M.D.; HENRY KOIRANSKY, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1932;44(6):1187-1210.

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Opinions vary as to the effect of measles on young children infected with active or presumably quiescent tuberculosis. Until recent years measles was always considered to be a menace to a tuberculous child, and was thought frequently to reactivate an apparently quiescent tuberculous process. At present there are several observers, such as Groer¹ and Choffé,² who believe that measles is not as harmful as it was previously supposed.

Nobécourt, Liège and Herr³ recently reported a clinical, roentgenologic and pathologic study of twenty children with tuberculosis that subsequently were infected with measles. Roentgenograms of the chest were made after the termination of the measles. They stated, "Tuberculosis has no effect on measles, but measles, in many cases, has an effect on tuberculosis." As little or nothing is known of the changes that occur in the chest of children with tuberculosis during and immediately after measles, it was our . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Willard Parker Hospital for Contagious Diseases, Department of Hospitals.

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