RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Evaluation of tuberculosis diagnostic criteria in children JF European Respiratory Journal JO Eur Respir J FD European Respiratory Society SP p4972 VO 38 IS Suppl 55 A1 Soheila Khalilzadeh A1 Maryam Hassanzad A1 Nooshin Baghaie A1 Mohamad Reza Boloorsaz A1 Ali Akbar Velayati YR 2011 UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/38/Suppl_55/p4972.abstract AB Objectives: In this study we reviewed the diagnostic citeria for tuberculosis on 198 children diagnosed with TBMaterial and methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted on a series of 525 children aged 1 to 15 years. Among 525 patients, 198 were diagnosed with TB. Date of the study were collected from the patients recoreds, chest radiographs and laboratory examinations.Demographic and diagnostic characteristics of patients were reviewed by means of the available criteria.Results: In this study 38.9% of patients were male and 61.1% were female.Among all patients 34.5% were Iranian and 65.2% were Afghanis.In this study 82.8% of patients reported close contact with TB. Among all patients 13.1% had extrapulmonary tuberculosis, 72.7% had pulmonary tuberculosis and 14.1% had pulmonary and extrapulmonary involvement.Frequency of TST, contact, clinical symptoms, radiograph findings and bacteriology as diagnostic methods was 79.3%, 83.8%, 83.8%, 85.9%, and 58.1%, respectively. Due to our setting, 90.4% of patients fulfill the criteria.Discussion: The result of this study indicate the high diagnostic value of smear and culture of gastric aspirate in children.How ever, it couldnt be considered as a gold standard for diagnosis of TB in children. In addition the significant accuracy of the available criteria was determined and it could be considered as an efficient diagnostic setting in childhood TB diagnosis.