Unusual ventilation-perfusion patterns in primary lung tuberculosis
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Pediatric Pulmonology
- Vol. 5 (1) , 51-54
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.1950050110
Abstract
We report two cases of primary lung tuberculosis in children with unusual perfusion ventilation scintigraphic patterns. In the first case, a mismatch in the right upper lobe suggests an elective compression of the bronchi by the mediastinal lymph nodes; in the second case, the total absence of ventilation and perfusion of the left lobe at scintigraphy illustrates the discrepancy sometimes encountered between chest x-ray and lung scintigraphy.Keywords
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