title: [Disseminated tuberculosis of the lungs in children].
abstract: The infiltration phase of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis has recently become a severe form of tuberculosis in children. It is accompanied by bacillary excretion (61.3%), lung tissue destruction (29.1%) and process generalization with extrapulmonary localization. Its course is most severe in the phase of destruction and has fatal outcome in 26.4% of cases which is mainly encountered in children of the early and pubertal age. The differential diagnosis of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis in children with dissemination of non-tuberculous etiology is of importance considering a high percentage of diagnostic errors. Timely diagnosis of the destruction phase of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis requires tuberculin diagnosis with Mantoux test with 2 TU PPD-L and bacteriological examination of all children with diffuse lung lesions staying in children's somatic hospitals.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Mitinskaia
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Iavorskiĭ
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology; D014586:USSR / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Disseminirovannyĭ tuberkulez legkikh u deteĭ.