Sonographic Findings of Abdominal Tuberculosis in Children With Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Ultrasound reports of 102 children with microbiologically confirmed or clinically diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) showed that 23 of 37 (64%) and 23 of 65 (36%) had TB suggestive abdominal lymphadenopathy, and 16 of 37 (44%) and 8 of 65 (13%) had splenic microabscesses, respectively. Splenic microabscesses were associated with HIV infection (P = 0.041). These data suggest that pulmonary TB is often complicated by abdominal TB in children.
From the *Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; †Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands; ‡Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and §Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany; and ¶Lighthouse Clinic, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014385:Tuberculosis, Gastrointestinal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000821:virology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000821:virology; D014463:Ultrasonography