Sonographic Findings of Abdominal Tuberculosis in Children With Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Issue 12 (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bélard, Sabine; Heller, Tom; Orie, Viyanti; Heuvelings, Charlotte C.; Bateman, Lindy; Workman, Lesley; Grobusch, Martin P.; Zar, Heather J.
• Is Part Of: Pediatric infectious disease journal. Volume 36:Issue 12(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: ultrasound -- tuberculosis -- HIV -- children -- extrapulmonary tuberculosis; Communicable diseases in children -- Periodicals; Infection in children -- Periodicals; 618.929
• DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001590
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0891-3668

Abstract

Abstract : 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. Abstract : Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text.