| Title |
Technical aspects of mediastinal ultrasound for pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Pediatric Radiology, August 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00247-017-3954-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kara-Lee Pool, Charlotte C. Heuvelings, Sabine Bélard, Martin P. Grobusch, Heather J. Zar, Dorothy Bulas, Brian Garra, Savvas Andronikou |
| Abstract |
Diagnosing childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) may be challenging due to difficulties in obtaining adequate sputum samples, paucibacillary disease and the low sensitivity of diagnostic tests. Chest radiography is an important diagnostic tool for pulmonary TB, but it involves radiation exposure, requires facilities that can house X-ray equipment and has poor inter-reader agreement. The cardinal radiologic finding of mediastinal lymphadenopathy may be detected using mediastinal ultrasound (US). We describe technical aspects of performing mediastinal US, which may assist diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary TB. |
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| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 6 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Members of the public | 4 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
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| Unknown | 41 | 100% |
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| Other | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 10 | 24% |
| Unknown | 11 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 46% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Sports and Recreations | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
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