Tina Q Tan, Edward O Mason, Ellen R Wald, William J Barson, Gordon E Schutze, John S Bradley, Laurence B Givner, Ram Yogev, Kwang Sik Kim, Sheldon L Kaplan
OBJECTIVE: The frequency of children who are hospitalized with pneumococcal pneumonia complicated by necrosis, empyema/complicated parapneumonic effusion, and lung abscess seems to be increasing. The factors that contribute to this increase are unclear; therefore, the objective of this study was to describe and compare the relative frequency, clinical characteristics, and outcome of hospitalized children with complicated pneumonia with those of children with uncomplicated pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in the era of antibiotic resistance...
July 2002: Pediatrics