Diffuse lung disease in young children: application of a novel classification scheme.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Considerable confusion exists regarding nomenclature, classification, and management of pediatric diffuse lung diseases due to the relative rarity and differences in the spectrum of disease between adults and young children.

Objectives

A multidisciplinary working group was formed to: (1) apply consensus terminology and diagnostic criteria for disorders presenting with diffuse lung disease in infancy; and (2) describe the distribution of disease entities, clinical features, and outcome in young children who currently undergo lung biopsy in North America.

Methods

Eleven centers provided pathologic material, clinical data, and imaging from all children less than 2 years of age who underwent lung biopsy for diffuse lung disease from 1999 to 2004.

Measurements

SUBMITTER: Deutsch GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2176101 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature