[Clinical and x-ray characteristics of respiratory diseases in children].

Clinical and X-ray characteristics were studied in 102 children with first detected active respiratory tuberculosis. The patients with intrathoracic lymph nodal tuberculosis were 39.2%, those with a primary complex, tuberculosis pleurisy, disseminated tuberculosis, infiltrative tuberculosis, and focal tuberculosis, 33.3, 14.7, 4.9, 5.9, and 1.9%, respectively. Under the present conditions, respiratory tuberculosis is encountered more commonly (72.5%) in infants and pre-school children, which is characterized by its complicated course (30.4%), clinical symptomatology with signs of tuberculous intoxication (66.6%), hyperergic (29.4%) and pronounced (46.1%) tuberculin sensitivity. Surveys have revealed the disease in 58.8% of patients, by tuberculin diagnosis in 36.6 of them.