Technical aspects of mediastinal ultrasound for pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis

Authors

Kara Lee Pool, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Charlotte C. Heuvelings, University of Cape Town
Sabine Bélard, University of Cape Town
Martin P. Grobusch, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Heather J. Zar, University of Cape Town
Dorothy Bulas, The George Washington University
Brian Garra, Washington DC VA Medical Center
Savvas Andronikou, University of Cape Town

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

12-1-2017

Journal

Pediatric Radiology

Volume

47

Issue

13

DOI

10.1007/s00247-017-3954-2

Keywords

Chest; Children; Lungs; Lymph nodes; Mediastinum; Tuberculosis; Ultrasound

Abstract

© 2017, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany. Diagnosing childhood pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) may be challenging due to difficulties in obtaining adequate sputum samples, paucibacillary disease and the low sensitivity of diagnostic tests. Chest radiography is an important diagnostic tool for pulmonary TB, but it involves radiation exposure, requires facilities that can house X-ray equipment and has poor inter-reader agreement. The cardinal radiologic finding of mediastinal lymphadenopathy may be detected using mediastinal ultrasound (US). We describe technical aspects of performing mediastinal US, which may assist diagnosis of paediatric pulmonary TB.

APA Citation

Pool, K., Heuvelings, C., Bélard, S., Grobusch, M., Zar, H., Bulas, D., Garra, B., & Andronikou, S. (2017). Technical aspects of mediastinal ultrasound for pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis. Pediatric Radiology, 47 (13). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00247-017-3954-2