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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1959;2(1):60-66. Published online January 31, 1959.

POST-MORTEM STUDIES ON 90 CASES OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN

Ho Yong Lee¹, Bok Soo Kim¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

During five years, from Mach 1953 to Feb 1958, there had been 130 cseses of post-mortem examinations of infants and children performed in the department of pathlogy, school of medicine, Yonsei university. This report containes the result gained from a careful analysis of anatomical & pathological findings seen in 90 cases of the total 130 postmortems. It has to note in this study that the most of the cases subjected for the post mortem examination were the infants and children came from families of poor class or orphanages. Summary 1. Majority of the newborns expired within a month after their births were premature children. Neonatal atelectasis and congenital anomalies were found the most frequent causes of the death. 2.The main causes of death in infantnts expired during one to 12 months of the ages were acute inflammatory diseases of lungs, (acute bronchopneumonia and interstitial pneumonia.) 3. As ages advances from one to 12 years, acute pneumonia decreases, and tuberculosis increases. The most frequent causes of death were tuberculosis in the children over 4 years of age. 4.Interstitial pneumonia were frequently observed in the babies between one to three months of age, but rarely seen after one year of age. 5.Extensive fatty met amor phosi s of the liver was seen in 20-25% of the infants and children we studied. The youngest one, we found fatty etamorphosis was one month old.

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