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Some less common Lung Complications in asthmatic Conditions in Children
Author(s) -
SÖDERLING BERTH
Publication year - 1935
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1935.tb16878.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bronchiectasis , atelectasis , asthma , etiology , tuberculosis , pediatrics , disease , bronchitis , pleurisy , subclinical infection , parasternal line , tuberculin , differential diagnosis , intensive care medicine , lung , surgery , pathology , immunology , pleural effusion
Summary. In children with asthmatic bronchitis or bronchial asthma we sometimes meet with the following complications, to which less attention seems to have been paid in the past.1 Parenchymatous changes which, having regard also to the clinical examination, course of disease and radiological appearance, must be considered a condition of atelectasis. These conditions seem to have been fairly little observed in this relation and to have caused considerable difficulties in the differential diagnosis. They refer to children of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years of age respectively. 2 Bronchiectasis. A couple of eases are related and their etiology discussed. 3 Pleural changes. These may cause one to suspect tuberculosis both in. the form of residual changes (fibrous bands) and of active pleurisy.The author is finally referring to a tuberculin‐negative asthmatic patient with calcification of the parenchyma. All the children have been tested with the Mantoux intracutaneous tuberculin method–most of them repeatedly–and most of them have been followed and after‐examined for a relatively long time. To avoid a mistake in the diagnosis (tuberculosis is particularly liable) it is important to know of the above‐mentioned complications; several of the cases referred to have been regarded as tuberculous and even been under treatment in sanatoria.