Re: Pigeon fever

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/15/99 7:37:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
sunibey@sisqtel.net writes:

<< Heidi,
 What does it look like?  Could it be confused with a thrombophlebitis of the
 jugular vein?
 Dyane >>

Not any case I've ever seen.  Most of the time, the abcesses are well down in 
the pectoral region, well below where the jugular vein disappears under the 
shoulder and into the chest.  And the oddball cases are on the midline or in 
the sheath or udder--clearly not related to the jugular...

Heidi


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