The aim of the present study is to evaluate the role of bronchoscopy in diagnosis of endobronchial tuberculosis in suspected pulmonary tuberculosis patients whose sputum samples are negative for Ziehl Neelsen stain.
Bronchoscopy plays a major role in identification and diagnosis of EBTB. As a general principal, Bronchoscopy -associated with microbiological testing- must be performed on patients whose CT examination results indicate EBTB. This study will try to focus on the importance of bronchoscopy in diagnosis of endobronchial tuberculosis among suspected pulmonary tuberculosis patients who undergo fiberoptic bronchoscope after being sputum Ziehl Neelsen negative, scarce sputum and/or persistent consolidation on chest radiograph (CXR).
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
63
EBTB was classified into seven subtypes by using the Chung's method: actively caseating, fibrostenotic, oedematous-hyperaemic, tumorous, ulcerative, granular, and the non-specific bronchitic subtype.
Heba Shalaby
Cairo, Egypt
the role of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in sputum smear negative and radiologically suspected pulmonary tuberculosis 63 patients in Mansoura chest hospital, bronchoscopy unit for early detection of endobronchial tuberculosis.
bronchoscopic evaluation of tracheobronchial tree for endobronchial tuberculosis lesions in patients with suspected PTB
Time frame: 1 year
The clinical presentation, bronchoscopic characteristics in comparison to radiological characteristics of EBTB, and incidence of EBTB subtypes in pulmonary TB patients
Time frame: 1 year
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