tailieunhanh - Radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis in adolescents

To describe radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in adolescents. Methods: Retrospective, cross-sectional, observational study of 850 patients with TB, aged 10 to 19 years, and notifi ed to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Data were collected from the TB notifi cation and medical records in the cities of Manaus, Amazonas State, and Salvador, Bahia State, in the 1996- 2003 period. Data are shown in tables and analyzed using the chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests, with a 5% signifi cance level. Results: Mean age was years; 443 () patients were males. The most common radiologic lesion was the upper pulmonary lobe infi ltrate (), and isolated cavitation. | ORIGINAL ARTICLE Authors Clemax Couto Sant Anna1 Christianne Mello Schmidt2 Maria de Fatima B Pombo March3 Susan Martins Pereira4 Mauricio Lima Barreto5 1PhD Associate Professor Medical School of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ Master s Degree Physician of the Hospital Universitário Antônio Pedro Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF 3PhD Adjunct Professor of the Medical School UFRJ 4PhD Associate Professor of the Instituto de Saúde Coletiva of Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA 5PhD - Full Professor of the Instituto de Saúde Coletiva UFBA ABSTRACT Objective To describe radiologic findings of pulmonary tuberculosis TB in adolescents. Methods Retrospective cross-sectional observational study of 850 patients with TB aged 10 to 19 years and notified to the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Data were collected from the TB notification and medical records in the cities of Manaus Amazonas State and Salvador Bahia State in the 19962003 period. Data are shown in tables and analyzed using the chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests with a 5 significance level. Results Mean age was years 443 patients were males. The most common radiologic lesion was the upper pulmonary lobe infiltrate and isolated cavitation was found in of the patients. Both lungs were affected in of the patients. The finding of bilateral radiologic lesions was significantly associated with longer disease duration p . Conclusions Pulmonary TB in adolescents has similar characteristics to TB in adults evidencing the important role played by adolescents in community disease transmission. Keywords tuberculosis adolescents diagnosis chest radiography. Braz J Infect Dis 2011 15 1 40-44 Elseviet Editora Ltda. Submitted on 05 14 2010 Approved on 08 03 2010 Correspondence to Clemax Couto Sant Anna Rua Cinco de Julho 350 604 Copacabana Rio de Janeiro RJ clemax@ Financial Support CNPq We declare no conflict of interest. INTRODUCTION Although the real situation of .

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