Table 3 Chest radiograph features characteristic (‘typical or highly suggestive chest radiograph findings’ of TB in children aged < 5 years, by disease severity status)
Non-severe disease | Severe disease |
|---|---|
• Uncomplicated LN disease - hilar or mediastinal nodes, nodes with unilateral airway narrowing, nodes with single lobe bronchopneumonia, nodes with segmental opacification (< 1 lobe) • Isolated Ghon focus • Simple pleural effusion | • Complicated LN disease (airway compression with hyperinflation or collapse or bilateral airway compression) • Expansile pneumonia (involving ≥ 1 lobe) • Ghon focus with cavitation • Miliary TB • Complicated pleural effusion (alveolar disease with effusion, pneumothorax, loculated pyopneumothorax with air-fluid level), loculated pleural effusion • Adult-type cavitary disease • Bronchopneumonic consolidation with or without cavities or visible lymph nodes • Suspected pericardial effusion (cardiac enlargement) |