[CAUSES AND WAYS OF THE NECK PHLEGMON SPREADING ON MEDIASTINUM WITH A DESCENDING PURULENT MEDIASTINITIS OCCURRENCE].

Abstract

Results of treatment in 2000-2016 yrs of 183 patients for the neck phlegmon were analyzed. In 60 (32.8%) of them a descending purulent mediastinitis (DPM) was diagnosed. The main causes of the DPM occurrence were tonsilogenic and odontogenous factors. Postoperative lethality in DPM have constituted 25%.