Results of Specific Treatment of Miliary Tuberculosis in Children

Abstract

BEFORE antimicrobial therapy miliary tuberculosis was usually a fatal complication of primary tuberculosis. Cases of spontaneous recovery have been reported in children. Wallgren¹ described 5 recoveries in 84 cases seen during a period of fifteen years. Engel² saw 1 recovery in fifteen years in a large pediatric service.In the Chest Clinic of the Children's Medical Service of Bellevue Hospital 102 children with generalized miliary tuberculosis were seen between 1926 and June, 1944. Of these 102 children, seen during a period of more than seventeen years, 99 died within a year, and of these, 88 succumbed within three months of . . .