On the etiology of posttyphoid lesions of costal cartilage

Abstract

Beginning in 1921, in the literature, more and more often there are reports of posttyphoid chondritis, which are a complication, mainly of typhus and relapsing fever. Mass cases of these defeats were in connection with the experience experienced in 1919-21. a huge epidemic of the indicated typhus. Until that time, cases of costal chondritis were described as complications of typhoid fever (Lampe, Harz bec ker); then it was indicated necrosis of costal cartilage after scarlet fever and, in general, diseases caused by the development of infection (cited by M. Zabludovsky).

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