Foreign Body Aspiration and Tuberculosis: Possible Misdiagnosis
Afr. j. respir. Med
; 9(1): 33-34, 2014. ilus
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ABSTRACT
Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is common in developing countries whereas foreign body aspiration is relatively less frequently diagnosed. This report is of a child contact (same household) of a smear-positive index case who presented with suggestive clinical features; and was admitted as a case of pulmonary TB; but subsequently found to have an aspirated foreign body was accounting for his symptoms. Due to the similarity in the clinical features of a delayed clinical presentation of foreign body aspiration with pulmonary TB; clinicians attending to children with chronic respiratory pathology in a TB-endemic area should be mindful of the possibility of a foreign body in the airway and should always carefully review chest radiographs
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Main subject:
Tuberculosis
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Case Reports
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Inhalation
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Diagnosis
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Afr. j. respir. Med
Year:
2014
type:
Article