Unusual ventilation-perfusion patterns in primary lung tuberculosis.
We report two cases of primary lung tuberculosis in children with unusual perfusion ventilation scintigraphic patterns. In the first case, a mismatch in the right upper lobe suggests an elective compression of the bronchi by the mediastinal lymph nodes; in the second case, the total absence of ventilation and perfusion of the left lobe at scintigraphy illustrates the discrepancy sometimes encountered between chest x-ray and lung scintigraphy.
Chanoine
J P
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Department of Pediatrics, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
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D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio
D013668:Technetium Tc 99m Aggregated Albumin