Ikeri Nzechukwu Zimudo, Umerah Godwin O, Ugwu Christopher Emeka, Olusoji Olugbenga, Adeyomoye Adekunle, Ekure Ekanem, Daramola Adetola Olubunmi
Department of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 12003, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Nigeria.
Department of Anatomical Pathology, Federal Medical Centre, PMB 7001, Umuahia, Abia, Nigeria.
Case Rep Pediatr. 2016;2016:1096953. doi: 10.1155/2016/1096953. Epub 2016 May 26.
Small airways diseases are not uncommon in childhood. They account for about 28.4% of hospital admissions for lower respiratory tract infections in South West Nigeria, most of which are due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. Noninfectious causes of small airways diseases, on the other hand, are poorly recognized and rarely feature in the differential diagnoses of chronic/recurrent lower respiratory tract disease in our environment. We present a case of follicular bronchiolitis in a 2.5-year-old Nigerian female who had left upper lobectomy on account of recurrent cough and progressive shortness of breath.
小气道疾病在儿童时期并不罕见。在尼日利亚西南部，它们约占下呼吸道感染住院病例的28.4%，其中大多数是由呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）感染引起的。另一方面，小气道疾病的非感染性病因在我们所处环境中认识不足，在慢性/复发性下呼吸道疾病的鉴别诊断中很少出现。我们报告一例2.5岁尼日利亚女性滤泡性细支气管炎病例，该患者因反复咳嗽和进行性气短接受了左上肺叶切除术。
