INTERPRETATION OF ROENTGENOGRAMS IN TRACHEOBRONCHIAL GLAND TUBERCULOSIS

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This paper is based on roentgenographic examinations of 109 children between the ages of 7 and 12 years at the Prendergast Preventorium of the Boston Tuberculosis Association. Each child is a "contact case," one that has had intimate and prolonged exposure to an active sputum-positive case of tuberculosis; each child has a positive skin tuberculin reaction, and in each case other foci of infection such as bad teeth, infected tonsils and adenoids which might have been the source of signs and symptoms had been removed. The roentgenograms were taken by Dr. Henry D. Chadwick of the Massachusetts Department of Health, who is directing the so-called Ten-Year Health Program for underweight children and those who have been exposed to tuberculosis, which is now being carried on in this state. Dr. Chadwick made a careful study of these films, grouping them as showing (1) normal chests, (2) suspicious chests and (3) bronchotracheal

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