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Boils after surgery to drain fluids from pneumonia. has been going for five six years with no correct diagnosis or treatment. many @ one time
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Where?: Are the 'boils' more like small holes draining fluid? How long ago was the surgery? Possibility of actinomycosis, despite the name it is a bacterial infection.
Answered 10/3/2016
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