All issues > Volume 9(6); 1966

Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1966;9(6):399-403. Published online November 30, 1966.

A Comparison of Gastric Cultures and Chest X-Ray Findings in Pulmonary Tuberculosis of Children

Dug Young Choi¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, Chonnam National University

Abstract

A study on 575 pulmonary tuberculosis patients under the ages of 14 years who had been diagnosed as such was made at Mokpo Children,s Tuberculosis Hospital, 1962 to 65. In regard to the characteristics of the groups studied, it was found that 74.1 % were minimal 22.1% moderately advanced, 3.8% far advanced in 506 cases of primary tuberculosis, and 49.3% were minimal 18. 9% moderately advanced, 31. 8% far advanced in 69 cases of reinfection tuberculosis. The highest incidence (32.1%) was in the 6〜9 age group, and the lowest (10.2%) in the 12~14 years of age. On analysis of gastric cultures and X-ray changes before chemotherapy, 12.0% of minimal cases, 28.6% moderate cases, and 47.4% of far advanced cases in primary tuberculosis, and 29.4% of minimal, 53.8% of mode rately advanced, 54.5% of far advanced cases in reinfection tuberculosis showed positive gastric cultures for tubercle bacilli. As a conclusion, the more severe the chest involvement is, the more positive gastric cultures of tuberculosis was demonstrated.

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