What is the most frequent location of bronchiectasis?
How is the diagnosis of bronchiectasis made?
True or false: since bronchiectasis in children may be associated with immunodeficiency, skin testing for delayed hypersensitivity and quantification of immunoglobulins such as IgG, IgE, IgA, and IgM is recommended?
What form of bronchiectasis is reversible, and may clear after the acute infection resolves?
Which is NOT a component of Kartagener's syndrome?
Which is NOT an indications for lung resection in bronchiectasis?
What are the results of surgery for diffuse bronchiectasis?
T or F: Compression of the bronchys is the most common cause of the middle lobe syndrome?
How is cystic fibrosis inherited?
True or false: digital clubbing and an increase in the AP diameter of the chest are common in cystic fibrosis?
Spontaneous pneumothorax is common in adolescent children with cystic fibrosis. What is the recurrence rate after simple chest tube drainage?
Which is NOT an indication for operation in a child with spontaneous pneumothorax?
T or F: Hemoptysis in patients with cystic fibrosis is an absolute indication for operation?
Which is NOT an indication for thoracotomy in cystic fibrosis?
The incidence of bronchiectasis in cystic fibrosis has increased, decreased, or remained the same?
Although rare, what site is most commonly infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
Most primary tuberculosis infections heal without leaving any lesions in the lung other than ____?
A child has a positive skin test for TB-how is it managed?
Which is NOT an indication for operation in pulmonary tuberculosis?
T or F: Atypical mycobacterial infections are extremely rare in the lungs of children, but are sometimes associated with AIDS?
What is the treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lymphadenitis?
What is the treatment of atypical mycobacterial lymph node infections?
What is the usual cause of bronchiolitis?
What is Williams-Campbell's syndrome?
The most common cause of hemoptysis in children is what?
Which is NOT a common cause of pediatric bronchiectasis?
What is the mortality of lung abscess in infants in immunosuppressed patients?
Which is the most common of the three types of bronchiectasis?
What is the most common cause of lung abscess in infants?
T or F: If the child is upright during aspiration, the basilar segment of the lower lobe is affected?
True or false: lung abscesses usually occur at the periphery of a segment or lobe ?
The symptoms of lung abscess or fever, chills, anorexia, malaise, and cough; the production of putrid sputum is more common in what age?
What is the initial treatment of lung abscess?
What is the radiographic difference between pneumatocele and abscess of lung?
Actinomycosis Israelii and Nocardia asteroides are what kind of bacteria?
What organism is normally found in the mouth, is associated with sulfur granules, may rarely cause empyema, pneumonia, draining sinus tracts, and is treated with penicillin?
This organism causes pulmonary infections resembling tuberculosis, and is an opportunistic infection in transplant recipients and the immunosuppressed. The treatment is sulfa drugs. Surgical intervention is rarely necessary unless there is empyema or chest wall abscess?
Which is not one of 3 fungi often causing no symptoms, or may cause fulminant progressive pneumonia. The most common presentation is a solitary pulmonary nodule on chest x-ray. What are these organisms?
This parasitic hydatid disease is a tapeworm infection of sheep and dogs, transmissible to humans.
What percent of Echinococcal lung cysts in children will spontaneously rupture without treatment?
What percentage of children less than 4 years have antibodies to Pneumocystis?
What is a typical radiographic finding of Pneumocystis?
What is the initial treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia?
T or F: Inflammatory pseudotumor of the lung is usually symptomatic, and rarely regresses?
Which is the last of the three stages of empyema?
Which is NOT one of the most common causes of empyema in children?
Which type of empyema may be accompanied by pneumatoceles?
Kerosene ingestion may cause what lung abnormality?
T or F: The passasge of time will help distinguish congenital lung cysts from pneumatoceles?
The type of bacteria causing the empyema clearly affects the speed and severity of loculation in empyema. Which type of infection progresses most rapidly?
A pleural fluid pH above 7 and a glucose below 40 are indications for what?
What is the mortality of empyema in childhood?
What is the most common cause of a mediastinal infection in childhood?
What are the most common organisms accounting for the 2 percent incidence of median sternotomy infections after cardiac surgery and kids?
True or false: granulomatous mediastinitis can usually be successfully treated in children with antibiotic therapy?