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The Treatment of Renal Failure: Therapeutic Principles in the Management of Acute and Chronic Uremia
Author(s) -
Saul J. Robinson,
Herbert L. Abrams,
Mario R. Garcia-Palmieri,
Roberto C. Rodriquez
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1956.tb56996.x
Subject(s) - uremia , intensive care medicine , chronic renal failure , medicine
Clinically each swelling accurately mimicked early carcinoma,so much so that it was decided that it should be widely excised and examined. This was done under general ansesthesia. In each instance a chronic thickwalled roundedabscesswas found containing thick yellow pus. Microscopic examinationof the abscesswall revealed an inflammatory condition with much small cell infiltration, mostly lymphocytes, but plasma cells and polymorphonuclearcells and even giant cells were present. Culture of the pus in each case produced a hremolytic coagulase-positiveStaphylococcus aureus. Antibiotic sensitivity tests showed this organism to be insensitive to penicillin, but sensitive to "Chloromycetin" and the "mycins".