[Excellent therapeutic results in an "apparently hopeless case"--an example of good interprofessional cooperation]

The authors demonstrate on the example of a patient the correct procedure as regards collaboration between different departments with excellent results--survival and cure of the patient. It was a serious case where the patient with the basic diagnosis (acute phlegmon of the neck with an abscedent mediastinitis) and several serious associated complications theoretically did not have a chance of survival. The authors emphasize the importance of collaboration of different departments where each played in a certain stage of the disease a leading role in therapy.