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

A REPORT OF TWO CASES

LUKE W. HUNT, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;56(5):1086-1090.

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

Hemorrhagic conditions in scarlet fever fortunately are rare. References to them in current textbooks are brief or absent and are often coupled with the statement that some of the cases reported may have been instances of hemorrhagic smallpox. In a survey of the literature of the past thirty years, about 62 cases of hemorrhagic purpura and fulminating purpura which occurred during or after scarlet fever have been found. Most of the references have been to case reports. In a study of the cases of 5,000 patients with scarlet fever admitted to the Durand Hospital during a period of twenty years, only 2 such cases were observed. The purpose of this paper is to report these 2 cases and to discuss in a brief manner some of the pertinent questions relating to the condition.

Fulminating purpura as a complication of scarlet fever is a type of disease usually rapidly fatal and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, and from the John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases.

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