1. [Clinical and x-ray characteristics of respiratory diseases in children].
- Author
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Sirenko IA, Marchenko OIu, Podoprigora NM, and Shmat'ko SA
- Subjects
- Child, Female, Humans, Male, Radiography, Severity of Illness Index, Lung diagnostic imaging, Respiratory Tract Diseases diagnosis, Respiratory Tract Diseases etiology, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary complications, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary diagnosis
- Abstract
Clinical and X-ray characteristics were studied in 102 children with first detected active respiratory tuberculosis. The patients with intrathoracic lymph nodal tuberculosis were 39.2%, those with a primary complex, tuberculosis pleurisy, disseminated tuberculosis, infiltrative tuberculosis, and focal tuberculosis, 33.3, 14.7, 4.9, 5.9, and 1.9%, respectively. Under the present conditions, respiratory tuberculosis is encountered more commonly (72.5%) in infants and pre-school children, which is characterized by its complicated course (30.4%), clinical symptomatology with signs of tuberculous intoxication (66.6%), hyperergic (29.4%) and pronounced (46.1%) tuberculin sensitivity. Surveys have revealed the disease in 58.8% of patients, by tuberculin diagnosis in 36.6 of them.
- Published
- 2002