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Title: Principles and practice of physical diagnosis
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Da Costa, John C., jr., 1871-
Subjects: Diagnosis Diagnosis
Publisher: Philadelphia and London : W.B. Saunders Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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Fig. 56.— lymphoma, leukemia, and Hodgkins disease. The cervical glands,lying along and beneath the sternocleidomastoid muscle, are the IOO PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS favorite site of simple acute adenitis tending to end by resolution,and met with in the specific fevers of childhood and in local infec-tions of neighboring parts. Of the former class of factors, measles,scarlatina, diphtheria, glandular fever, and pertussis are importamexamples; and of the latter group of causes, dental caries, stomatitis,tonsillitis, and otitis. The submaxillary glands^are frequently theearliest site of tuberculous adenitis, which in the course of time tendsto implicate the other lymphatics of the neck (Fig. 59). Scrofulousglands are prone to early softening, suppuration, and fistulation,and are often accompanied by definite signs of tuberculosis of thelungs and bronchial glands. These glands are also a favorite site for the growthstrictly limpainless svadjacent \stomatitis
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5 type being ng a dense, or adhere to ieria, mumps, n and adjacent structures are among the other factors of submaxillary adenitis.The occipital glands are commonly enlarged in syphilis, being recog- EXAMINATION OF THE THORAX IOI

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