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| Provedor de dados: |
BJID
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Clinical and radiological analysis of children and adolescents with tuberculosis in Bahia, Brazil
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| Autores: |
Franco,Rosana
Santana,Maria Angélica
Matos,Eliana
Sousa,Virgínia
Lemos,Antônio Carlos M.
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| Data: |
2003-02-01
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| Ano: |
2003
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| Palavras-chave: |
Tuberculosis
Children
Radiology
Chest x-ray
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| Resumo: |
We reviewed the clinical and radiological characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents at the Hospital Especializado Octávio Mangabeira, (HEOM) in Salvador, Bahia. This study included 275 TB patients aged 1 to 15 years seen between January 1990 and November 2001. Standardized forms were filled out on the basis of a review of patient records and x-rays. Through a retrospective and descriptive analysis, it was found that 51.6% were male, 35.3% were aged 1 to 5 years, 28% were aged 6 to 10 and 36.7% were aged 11 to 15. Among all patients, 79.6% lived in the city of Salvador. A history of contact with TB was found in 63.9%, most frequently among children under 5 years old; 77.2% were vaccinated with Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). The most frequently observed symptoms were coughing (76%), fever (73.1%) weight loss (53.1%), and 4.7% were asymptomatic. Pulmonary TB was most frequent (57.8%) and extra-pulmonary TB occurred in 24.4%, with a predominance of hilar adenopathy. Both forms occurred simultaneously in 17.8%. In 53.1% of the cases the diagnosis was not determined by bacteriology or pathological anatomy; in these cases diagnosis was reached through clinical and radiological criteria, contact history, a tuberculin test >10mm and a positive response to tuberculostatic drugs.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000100009
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| Editor: |
Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S1413-86702003000100009
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text/html
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| Fonte: |
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases v.7 n.1 2003
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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