Correlation between chest radiographic findings and clinical features in hospitalized children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Radiologic evaluation of children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae is important for diagnosis and management.

Objective

To investigate the correlation between chest radiographic findings and the clinical features in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia.

Materials and methods

This study included 393 hospitalized children diagnosed with M. pneumoniae pneumonia between January 2000 and August 2016. Their clinical features and chest radiographs were reviewed. Radiographic findings were categorized and grouped as consolidation group (lobar or segmental consolidation) and non-consolidation group (patchy infiltration, localized reticulonodular infiltration, or parahilar peribronchial infiltration).

Results

Lobar or segmental consolidation (37%) was the m

SUBMITTER: Cho YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713385 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature