[Clinical x-ray characteristics of acute suppurative destructions of the lungs of a nonstaphylococcal nature in children].

The authors conducted complex clinico-roentgenological and immuno-bacteriological studies in 63 children, aged from 14 days to 14 years, with acute suppurative destructions of the lung, complicated with the development of pyothorax. As a result of these investigations, it was found that clinico-roentgenological symptomatics in children with acute suppurative destructions of the lung of the non-staphylococcal nature (Proteus, pyocyanic bacillus and others) show evident peculiarities and differ from typical manifestations of staphylococcal destruction of the l,ng in children. Complex clinico-roentgenological and immuno-bacteriological studies in children with the mentioned pathology enabled the authors to differentiate an infective nature of the disease.