All issues > Volume 20(1); 1977

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1977;20(1):36-42. Published online January 31, 1977.

Clinical Studies of infectious croup prevailing in winter of 1975.

Soo Young Chung, Joo Hwan Han, Woo Kap Chung

¹Department of Pediatrics, Medical College, Chung-ang University, Korea.

Abstract

Clinical studies were performed on 32 cases of infectious cuoup prevailing in winter of 1975, admitted to department of pediatrics. The symptoms were critical and clinical course was more repidly progressed, so incidence of emergent tracheostomy was increased than previous years. Incidence of complicated Pulmonary disease was high, but prognosis was good relatively. According to these findings, specific prevalent viral infection was suspected, but identification of virus was not performed.

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