The role of bronchoscopy in the diagnosis and management of pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis.

15 Cakir reported that the risk factor for developing airway compression was resistance to treatment ( p = 0.002) and that airway involvement was more common in young children, primary TB, and parenchymal involvement, but this did not reach statistical significance. 15 These findings are in keeping with a study by Lucas et al. 16 on the chest CT scan findings of children with clinically significant airway compression caused by pulmonary TB.

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