Complicated course of local mycobacterial infection in an immunocompetent girl
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B Lundberg1, M Eriksson, B Petrini
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Danderyd's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
A complicated course of cervical Mycobacterium avium adenitis in a healthy 3-year-old girl is described. A retropharyngeal and a parotic abscess developed resulting in a salivary fistula. Surgery was not judged possible but chemotherapy was given for 6 months during which the infection healed. It is not clear whether the regression was spontaneous or caused by the therapy.