J A Domingo Morera | PubMed Health

PubMed1997

[Intrabronchial foreign body in adults: usefulness of computerized tomography].

The diagnosis of intrabronchial solid foreign body is recorded less often in adults than in children and becomes increasingly difficult to make as time passes after aspiration. Three cases of intrabronchial foreign body in adults with no history of loss of consciousness are reported. Clinical and radiological features are discussed, with special mention of the diagnostic role of computed tomography, a technique that has not often been mentioned in the literature on foreign body aspiration, but that is more sensitive and specific than the simple X-ray. In patients with symptoms inconsistent with X-ray images, computed tomography can be a useful, noninvasive technique for guiding diagnosis and assessing the need for bronchoscopy.

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PubMed1990

[Active pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients: current radiological presentation forms].

The clinical histories and thorax X-rays of 91 patients aged between 15 and 25 years who were admitted at the Hospital Royo Villanova, Zaragoza from 1983 to 1987 because of active pulmonary tuberculosis, were reviewed in order to study the radiological presentation of pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients and examine if there were any differences with other age groups. We highlight from the results: 1) The male/female ratio was 1.5/1.2) There were no differences in the radiological presentation between this group and older subjects, 3) The radiological localization of the lesions was the classical one, 4) The mean clinical evolution time before diagnosis was made, was of three months, 5) A longer evolution time was related to a greater lesion extension. We highlight that a prompt X-ray contributes to the early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in young patients avoiding delays in diagnosis and treatment.

Adult↗