Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H C Garcia Rodriguez.
Examination of a peritonitis tuberculosa in three children, each of one year of age, resulted in an x-ray film morphology of the type known in peritonitis tuberculosa in adults. The identification of extended loops of constant localization is a pointer in this direction. Diagnosis becomes even more probable if the clinical pattern is also considered or if there are changes in the lung.
Eight of 19 children with typhus abdominalis who were between 4 and 12 years of age, showed perforation of the intestine. The terminal ileum was always the site of the perforation. Besides the clearly visualized air, meteorism of the small intestine was always seen. In individual cases, segments of the small intestine were seen in close proximity to each other, or an ileus developed. The x-ray film in typhus abdominalis in childhood shows the same signs as an adult x-ray. A characteristic feature of the perforation is its localization in the terminal ileum and the time at which it occurs, namely, between the end of the 2nd and the end of the 4th week of the diseased condition.