Could CT scan avoid unnecessary flexible bronchoscopy in children with active pulmonary tuberculosis? A retrospective study

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Arlaud, Kévin ^a   Gorincour, Guillaume ^a   Bouvenot, Julien ^a   Dutau, Hervé ^b   Dubus, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHUS EXAMINATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STEROID THERAPY; TUBERCULOSIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 77149135726     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.151639     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Antoine D, Che D. Les cas de tuberculose maladie déclarés en France en 2006. Bulletin Epidémiologique Hebdomadaire 2008;10-11:69-72.
2. Abadco DL, Steiner P. Gastric lavage is better than bronchoalveolar lavage for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1992;11:735-8.
3. Schaaf HS, Beyers N, Gie RP, et al. Respiratory tuberculosis in childhood: the diagnostic value of clinical features and special investigations. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1995;14:189-94.
4. Somu N, Swaminathan S, Paramasivan CN, et al. Value of bronchoalveolar lavage and gastric lavage in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children. Tuber Lung Dis 1995;76:295-9.
5. Marais BJ, Gie RP, Schaaf HS, et al. Childhood pulmonary tuberculosis: old wisdom and new challenges. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2006;173:1078-90.
6. Andronikou S, Joseph E, Lucas S, et al. CT scanning for the detection of tuberculous mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy in children. Pediatr Radiol 2004;34:232-6.
7. Bibi H, Mosheyev A, Shoseyov D, et al. Should bronchoscopy be performed in the evaluation of suspected pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis? Chest 2002;122:1604-8.
8. Kim WS, Moon WK, Kim IO, et al. Pulmonary tuberculosis in children: evaluation with CT. AJR Am J Roentgenol 1997;168:1005-9.
9. Neu N, Saiman L, San Gabriel P, et al. Diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis in the modern era. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1999;18:122-6.
10. Prévention et prise en charge de la tuberculose en France: synthèse et recommandations du groupe de travail du Conseil Supérieur d'Hygiène Publique de France. Rev Mal Respir 2003;20:7S1-106.
11. Barbato A, Magarotto M, Crivellaro M, et al. Use of the paediatric bronchoscope, flexible and rigid, in 51 European centres. Eur Respir J 1997;10:1761-6.
12. De Blic J, Marchac V, Scheinmann P. Complications of flexible bronchoscopy in children: prospective study of 1,328 procedures. Eur Respir J 2002;20:1271-6.
13. Nicolai T. Pediatric bronchoscopy. Pediatr Pulmonol 2001;31:150-64.
14. Wagener JS. Fatality following fiberoptic bronchoscopy in a two-year-old child. Pediatr Pulmonol 1987;3:197-9.
15. Picard E, Schwartz S, Goldberg S, et al. A prospective study of fever and bacteremia after flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy in children. Chest 2000;117:573-7.
16. Chan S, Abadco DL, Steiner P. Role of flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the diagnosis of childhood endobronchial tuberculosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1994;13:506-9.
17. De Blic J, Azevedo I, Burren CP, et al. The value of flexible bronchoscopy in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. Chest 1991;100:688-92.
18. Tuberculose: traitement et prévention. Bulletin Epidémiologique Hebdomadaire 1997.
19. American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diagnostic standards and classification of tuberculosis in adults and children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000;161:1376-95.
20. European Respiratory Society Task Force. Tuberculosis management in Europe: recommandations of a task force of the European Respiratory Society, the World Health Organisation and the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Europe Region. Eur Respir J 1999;14:978-92.
21. Agarwal S, Hong DK, Soslow J, et al. Not your routine foreign body: endobronchial tuberculosis in an infant. Pediatrics 2005;116:246-8.
22. Altin S, Cikrikçioglu S, Morgül M, et al. 50 endobronchial tuberculosis cases based on bronchoscopic diagnosis. Respiration 1997;64:162-4.
23. Chung HS, Lee JH. Bronchoscopic assessment of the evolution of endobronchial tuberculosis. Chest 2000;117:385-92.
24. Nemir RL, Cardona J, Vaziri F, et al. Prednisone as an adjunct in the chemotherapy of lymph node-bronchial tuberculosis in childhood: a double-blind study. II. Further term observation. Am Rev Respir Dis 1967;95:402-10.
25. Gerbeaux J, Baculard A, Couvreur J. Primary tuberculosis in childhood. Indications and contraindications for corticosteroid therapy: observations on 577 treated cases. Am J Dis Child 1965;110:507-18.
26. Toppet M, Malfroot A, Derde MP, et al. Corticosteroids in primary tuberculosis with bronchial obstruction. Arch Dis Child 1990;65:1222-6.
27. Park IW, Choi BW, Hue SH. Prospective study of corticosteroid as an adjunct in the treatment of endobronchial tuberculosis in adults. Respirology 1997;2:275-81.
28. Ip MS, So SY, Lam WK, et al. Endobronchial tuberculosis revisited. Chest 1986;89:727-30.
29. Pomputius WF III, Rost J, Dennehy PH, et al. Standardisation of gastric aspirate technique improves yield in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1997;16:222-6.
30. Dickson SJ, Brent A, Davidson RN, et al. Comparison of bronchoscopy and gastric washings in the investigation of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis 2003;37:1649-53.
31. Zar HJ, Hanslo D, Apolles P, et al. Induced sputum versus gastric lavage for microbiological confirmation of pulmonary tuberculosis in infants and young children: a prospective study. Lancet 2005;365:130-4.
32. Grenier PA, Beigelman-Aubry C, Fétita C, et al. New frontiers in CT imaging of airway disease. Eur Radiol 2002;12:1022-44.
33. Heyer CM, Kagel T, Lemburg SP, et al. Evaluation of tracheobronchial anomalies in children using low-dose multidetector CT: report of a 13-year-old boy with a tracheal bronchus and recurrent pulmonary infections. Pediatr Pulmonol 2004;38:168-73.
34. Lee KS, Yoon JH, Kim TK, et al. Evaluation of tracheo-bronchial disease with helical CT with multiplanar and three-dimensional reconstruction: correlation with bronchoscopy. Radiographics 1997;17:555-567.
35. Yanardag H, Tetikkurt C, Tetikkurt S, et al. Computed tomography and bronchoscopy in endobronchial tuberculosis. Can Respir J 2003;10:445-8.
36. Hoppe H, Walder B, Sonnenschein M, et al. Multidetector CT virtual bronchoscopy to grade tracheobronchial stenosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2002;178:1195-200.