RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD March 12
VO 139
IS 11
SP 720
OP 720
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02900280036013
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900280036013
AB EXUDATIVE PLEURISY IN CHILDREN 
    From the Pediatric Clinic of Karolinska Institutet at Norrtull's Hospital, Stockholm, and the State Institute of Human Genetics and Race Biology, Uppsala, Nathhorst1 investigated 595 children up to 16 years of age who had been treated at the children's hospitals in Göteborg and Stockholm for exudative pleurisy. As a control series, 575 healthy tuberculin-positive children of comparable age from the children's home in Göteborg were studied. The mean period of observation was 13.1 and 13.7 years respectively. During hospitalization for pleurisy, 585 of the 595 children were tuberculin positive. In 65 per cent, the onset was acute, and in 35 per cent insidious. The temperature and sedimentation rates were the same whether onset was acute or not. An infection of the upper respiratory tract did not seem to be of any specific importance in causing pleurisy in those who fell ill during hospitalization. Boys showed