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Computed tomography of children with pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

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العنوان: Computed tomography of children with pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
المؤلفون: Steven Shinn-Forng Peng, Pei-Chun Chan, Yeun-Chung Chang, Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih
المصدر: Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, Vol 110, Iss 12, Pp 744-749 (2011)
بيانات النشر: Elsevier, 2011.
سنة النشر: 2011
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine (General)
مصطلحات موضوعية: children, computed tomography, infection, lung, tuberculosis, Medicine (General), R5-920
الوصف: Surveillance and control of tuberculous infection in pediatric patients, especially in those with a contact history, is important to prevent tuberculous infection in the general population. Totally 26 patients, younger than 14 years of age, who had a diagnosis of pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), underwent both chest radiographs and computed tomography (CT), which were retrospectively reviewed and compared with those of 20 patients with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP). TB patients were commonly afebrile and had less cavitating lesions or pleural fluid than CABP patients had. Focal or sub-segmental lung opacities suggested the diagnosis of TB than of CABP. Chest CT could also help to identify enlarged, calcified, necrotic mediastinal lymph nodes, which are less frequently found in CABP and frequently obscured by thymic shadows on chest radiographs of children. Low-dose CT for children or infants suspected to have pulmonary TB infection could help to make the decision of further antibiotic treatment.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0929-6646
Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664611001288; https://doaj.org/toc/0929-6646
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2011.11.003
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/fa5bf01dedb645978170495a01f915a8
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.fa5bf01dedb645978170495a01f915a8
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الوصف
تدمد:09296646
DOI:10.1016/j.jfma.2011.11.003