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. 2017 Dec;36(12):1224-1226.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000001590.

Sonographic Findings of Abdominal Tuberculosis in Children With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Sabine Bélard  1 , Tom Heller, Viyanti Orie, Charlotte C Heuvelings, Lindy Bateman, Lesley Workman, Martin P Grobusch, Heather J Zar
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Sonographic Findings of Abdominal Tuberculosis in Children With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Sabine Bélard et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2017 Dec.

Abstract

Ultrasound reports of 102 children with microbiologically confirmed or clinically diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) showed that 23 of 37 (64%) and 23 of 65 (36%) had TB suggestive abdominal lymphadenopathy, and 16 of 37 (44%) and 8 of 65 (13%) had splenic microabscesses, respectively. Splenic microabscesses were associated with HIV infection (P = 0.041). These data suggest that pulmonary TB is often complicated by abdominal TB in children.

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Figure 1
Splenic micro-abscesses (*) in a 12 year old HIV-infected boy.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Multiple enlarged lymph nodes (LN) in the peri-pancreatic region in a 10 year old HIV-uninfected girl.
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