title: [Gastroduodenal mucosal morphological changes in tuberculosis-infected children].
abstract: Three groups of children aged 4 to 14 years who complained of having dyspepsia were examined. Group 1 included 31 children without tuberculous infection; Group 2 comprised 30 newly tuberculosis-infected children; Group 3 consisted of 35 children who had an over one-year history of the infection. Esophagoduodenoscopy and biopsy indicated that the incidence of Helicobacter infection and gastritis was higher in children with tuberculous infection than in those without it and it was directly related to the duration of infection. The specific features of chronic gastritis in the infected children were the totality of gastric mucous lesion with more profound antral changes, the predominance of progressive gastritis, as appeared as neutrophilic infiltration, gastric mucous contamination with Helicobacter and Candida, and metaplasia.
authors.forename: T V
authors.initials: TV
authors.lastname: Iakushkina
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Lomachenkov
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Babichev
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Makeenkova
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Shestakova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004382:Duodenitis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D004386:Duodenum / Q000473:pathology*; D016145:Endoscopy, Digestive System; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D005756:Gastritis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*