Clinical picture and diagnostic aspects of various tuberculosis in children and adolescents
In children’s tuberculosis inpatient departments of the PMCforPhandP and the Tashkent city tuberculosis hospital, 272 children and adolescents with various forms of tuberculosis were examined. Among children with various forms of tuberculosis, 28(10,3%) patients were diagnosed with complicated forms and 244 (89,7%)-uncomplicated forms of tuberculosis. When studying the risk factors for the disease, it was revealed that there were 225 (87,7%) children vaccinated with BCG, of which 58 (25,8%) children (76,8%), of whom anemia was found in 35 (12,9%) patients. In the structure of clinical forms in childrenand adolescents with tuberculosis, tuberculosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes (57,0%) and primary tuberculosis complex (11,0%) predominate. Most of the children hada positivity to tuberculin (77,5±2,5%) and to the test for Diaskintest (69,5±2,7%).