RUPTURE OF A MEDIASTINAL LYMPH-NODE INTO THE BRONCHUS

Abstract

History .—G. S., aged 5, was admitted from the German Hospital Dispensary to the A. Jacobi Department for Children, Nov. 25, 1012, with a diagnosis of pus in the urine. The child had been in remarkably good health; the birth was normal; the baby was breast-fed for two years. Until the present illness life was uneventful; the child had no acute or chronic illness, no coughing or expectoration, and no gastro-intestinal complaint. No tuberculosis is present in the family of the father or mother. The mother had no miscarriages. The two living children are in perfect health. Four months before, the mother noticed mucus in the urine, and the child complained that urination was painful. He cried when urinating, but there was no increased pain at the end of urination; neither was there increased frequency. A few weeks before the mother noted a slight trace of blood in the urine.