title: Bronchoscopic evaluation in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis: risk factors of airway involvement and contribution to the bacteriologic diagnosis.
abstract: We aimed to describe the risk factors of airway involvement and to investigate the contribution of bronchoscopy in the bacteriologic diagnosis of tuberculosis. Airway involvement was more often present in patients with resistance to tuberculosis therapy than in the patients having bronchoscopy performed at initial presentation. Addition of bronchoalveolar lavage to the diagnostic workup increased the mycobacteriologic yield statistically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Bezmialem Vakif University, Faculty of Medicine, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey. erkancakir1@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Erkan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cakir
authors.forename: Arif
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kut
authors.forename: Emin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozkaya
authors.forename: Ahmet Hakan
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Gedik
authors.forename: Levent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Midyat
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nursoy
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000382:microbiology; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*