All issues > Volume 31(9); 1988

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1988;31(9):1225-1231. Published online September 30, 1988.

4 Cases of Non-Hematogenous Disseminated Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Mi Ja Yoon¹, Myung Soo Chang¹, Bok Lyun Kim¹, Shin na Kim¹, Hae Soon Chang²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Dong Boo City Hospital, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Radiology, Dong Boo City Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Received: September 29, 1987;  Accepted: March 16, 1988.

Abstract

Unlike hematogenous spread in miliary tuberculosis, disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis is considered to be spread by non-hematogenous transbronchial with characteristic chest X-ray appear- ance. This type of spread is unusal in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. We are reporting 4 such cases from 1984 to 1986 with chest X-ray findings. In city hospital where most patients come from low-income families, we see significant number of children with various types of tuberculosis. In 1986,15% of total pediatric out-patients was diagnosed as tuberculosis. This data is much higher than 2 〜 5.8% reported by other hospitals in recent years.

Keywords :Non-hematogenous disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis