Varicella and Steroid Therapy

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Abstract
The recent article, Mortality from Varicella in Children Receiving Adrenocorticosteroids and Adrenocorticotropin, by Dr. K. C. Finkel, in Pediatrics 28:436, 1961, is of interest and poses some questions or policies of therapy, especially the statement, "In the author's opinion the administration of adrenocorticosteroids need be stopped only in the patients with leukemia or diseases involving the reticuloendothelial system." If all the deaths of patients with varicella, who were receiving steroid therapy, had occurred only among patients with leukemia, such a statement might appear justified, but this is certainly not the case.

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