[Diagnosis and treatment of suppurative mediastinitis]. / Diagnostika i lechenie gnoinogo mediastinita.

ABSTRACT

An analysis of 57 clinical observations has shown that purulent mediastinitis is one of the particular complications of traumas of the esophagus, peripharyngeal phlegmons, phlegmon of the oral cavity floor. The method of choice for the treatment of purulent mediastinitis is active surgical tactics--optimal drainage of the mediastinum with running irrigation.