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Clinical value of pleural biopsy in the diagnosis of children with tuberculous pleurisy
Ist Teil von
Zhonghua er ke za zhi, 2014-05, Vol.52 (5), p.392
Ort / Verlag
China
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
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MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
To explore the value of pleural biopsy in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy in children.
Fifty-one cases with tuberculous pleurisy, whose diagnosis was established according to the clinical diagnostic criteria of the child pulmonary tuberculosis formulated by the Chinese Medical Association (CMA) in 2006, after pleural biopsy hospitalized in Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from Jan. 1, 2007 to Jan. 1, 2013 were enrolled into this study. Clinical symptoms, history traits, laboratory examination, imaging tests, pleural fluid characteristics and the results of pleural biopsy were retrospectively analyzed. Medical records of the cases who were diagnosed with tuberculous pleurisy by histological examination were reviewed to assess tuberculosis detection rate of pleural biopsy and to get the percentage of cases with a preoperative diagnosis inconsistent with the final diagnosis.
There were 35 boys and 16 girls, and the mean age was (9.7 ± 3.5) years. The common symptoms included fever (82%),