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(Chest. 1949;15:563-567.)
© 1949 American College of Chest Physicians

Platybasia Associated with an Unusual Case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Report of a Case with Necropsy

ISAAC EPSTEIN M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 The Chest Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Alexandria, Louisiana.

1) Platybasia associated with an unusual case of pulmonary tuberculosis is reported and the possibility of a congenital mediastinal defect is also discussed.

2) The basilary invagination in this case apparently influenced the respiratory center by a depressing effect on the response of the respiratory rate to stimulation.

3) It is advisable that careful search for platybasia be made in every case with degenerative changes of the spinal cord.

4) The necropsy in this case confirmed our clinical diagnoses of platybasia and pulmonary tuberculosis with bilateral pneumothorax and pneumoperitoneum.






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