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Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review
Childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is often a challenge that requires a combination of history, clinical, radiological, immunological and microbiological findings. Radiological diagnosis is based today on the use of chest X-ray and chest CT that, in addition to being radio-invasive too...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9570535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36233582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195714 |
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author | Morello, Rosa De Rose, Cristina Ferrari, Vittoria Valentini, Piero Musolino, Anna Maria Biasucci, Daniele Guerino Vetrugno, Luigi Buonsenso, Danilo |
author_facet | Morello, Rosa De Rose, Cristina Ferrari, Vittoria Valentini, Piero Musolino, Anna Maria Biasucci, Daniele Guerino Vetrugno, Luigi Buonsenso, Danilo |
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description | Childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is often a challenge that requires a combination of history, clinical, radiological, immunological and microbiological findings. Radiological diagnosis is based today on the use of chest X-ray and chest CT that, in addition to being radio-invasive tools for children, are often not available in countries with low-resources. A non-invasive, easily usable and reproducible, low-cost diagnostic tool as LUS would therefore be useful to use to support the diagnosis of childhood PTB. Data on the use of LUS for the diagnosis and follow-up of childhood PTB are limited and in some respects contradictory. To help better define the potential role of LUS we have described the pros and cons of lung ultrasound method through a brief review of the studies in the literature and reporting some case series in which we describe clinical, laboratory, radiological results as well as detailed lung ultrasound findings of four children/adolescents with PTB. |
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spelling | pubmed-95705352022-10-17 Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review Morello, Rosa De Rose, Cristina Ferrari, Vittoria Valentini, Piero Musolino, Anna Maria Biasucci, Daniele Guerino Vetrugno, Luigi Buonsenso, Danilo J Clin Med Case Report Childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) diagnosis is often a challenge that requires a combination of history, clinical, radiological, immunological and microbiological findings. Radiological diagnosis is based today on the use of chest X-ray and chest CT that, in addition to being radio-invasive tools for children, are often not available in countries with low-resources. A non-invasive, easily usable and reproducible, low-cost diagnostic tool as LUS would therefore be useful to use to support the diagnosis of childhood PTB. Data on the use of LUS for the diagnosis and follow-up of childhood PTB are limited and in some respects contradictory. To help better define the potential role of LUS we have described the pros and cons of lung ultrasound method through a brief review of the studies in the literature and reporting some case series in which we describe clinical, laboratory, radiological results as well as detailed lung ultrasound findings of four children/adolescents with PTB. MDPI 2022-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9570535/ /pubmed/36233582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195714 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Morello, Rosa De Rose, Cristina Ferrari, Vittoria Valentini, Piero Musolino, Anna Maria Biasucci, Daniele Guerino Vetrugno, Luigi Buonsenso, Danilo Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title | Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title_full | Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title_short | Utility and Limits of Lung Ultrasound in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Lessons from a Case Series and Literature Review |
title_sort | utility and limits of lung ultrasound in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis: lessons from a case series and literature review |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9570535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36233582 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11195714 |
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