Septicemia in a Pediatric Unit: A 20-Year Study

Focal Bacterial Infections

“…Among 175,000 neonates admitted from 1957-1977 to Milwaukee Children's Hospital, 2 died with hepatic microabscesses [6]; 3 patients with hepatic microabscesses were seen among 83,000 pediatric patients admitted to New York Hospital from 1945-1983 [7]; and one case of hepatic microabscesses was reported at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston from 1963-1984 [8]. Most reviewers who have discussed postmortem observations of infants dying with neonatal sepsis have not described the occurrence of such secondary sites of infection [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] or have presented them as an occasional ancillary finding [17,18].…”