title: [Clinical and x-ray characteristics of respiratory diseases in children].
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.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Sirenko
authors.forename: O Iu
authors.initials: OIu
authors.lastname: Marchenko
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Podoprigora
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shmat'ko
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*