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Chairman NMA
Dr Umar Muhammad Muktar
Chairman NMA Sokoto
Abstract
| Volume 10 Number 3 - 4 July - December 2022 |
| Saidu SA, Maaji SM, Nzeh DA, Jiya NM |
| Objectives: To describe the radiological pattern of pneumonia in children under - five years of age examined at the Radiology Department of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, (UDUTH) Sokoto. Materials and Methods: One hundred and ninety seven (197) children, under five years of age had chest radiographic examination over a 20 months period (February 2004 to September 2005) at the Department of Radiology UDUTH. Requests for chest radiographs were made by medical practitioners mostly paediatricians based on their clinical suspicion of pneumonia. The data were analysed using SPSS 16.0 software. Results: The largest number of patients presented in their infancy: 87 out of 197 (44.2%) followed by those in their second year: 70 out of 197 (35.5%). The peak period of presentation was in the cold and windy harmattan months of January and February 2005 made up of 42 patients (21.3%). The commonest radiological feature consisted of mottled opacities in the lung fields due to patchy consolidation of bronchopneumonia seen in 62 out of 197 patients (31.5%). Fifty three patients (26.9%) showed punctate opacities in the perihilar regions. Uniform consolidation of lobar pneumonia was observed in 9 patients (4.6%) with one of them showing associated soft tissue wasting. Conclusion: Pneumonia remains a common cause of morbidity in childhood. Radiological examinations are useful in defining the nature and extent of the disease as well as follow up. Seasonal variations exist in its incidence and so public health preventive measures should be intensified at such peak periods to check the spread of the disease. |
| 10.47837/CMJ.19770126.201531163 |
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