This Article  • 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?

By Alfred Wiskott. Price, 12 marks. Pp. 163, with 56 illustrations. Berlin: S. Karger, 1932.

Am J Dis Child. 1935;49(6):1685.

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

From a study of a large number of cases checked by roentgen findings and observations at autopsy, Wiskott presents an extremely interesting classification and interpretation of the pneumonias of infancy and early childhood. He believes that the type of reaction to infection, judged by the clinical course, roentgen findings and observations at autopsy, is characteristic of the age period rather than of the infecting organism. For instance, in infants under 4 months of age, although the organism most frequently found is a pneumococcus, one rarely sees lobar pneumonia. The reaction is usually diffuse, extending out from the hilus on both sides—a perivasobronchial type—or it may be a finely disseminated miliary pneumonia or the primary abscess-forming septic type of Finkelstein. As a background for this, he points out the greater permeability of lining cells, the lack of a localizing defense mechanism and the failure of antibody formation. This he calls the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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