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What Does Presence Of Prominent Bilateral Perihilar Marking In A Toddler Suggest?
Question: My toddler son has been diagnosed with Prominent Bilateral Perihilar Markings. What does this mean?
Brief Answer:
It needs to be correlated with symptoms and clinical examination
Detailed Answer:
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Prominent bilateral perihilar markings is only a part of the description of chest x ray and is not a diagnosis. It simply means that on chest x ray the lung fields are not clear on both the sides of midline where lungs vessels and airways start branching.
Prominent bilateral perihilar markings could sometimes indicate presence of edema of fluid. This can be seen in pulmonary edema, in chronic infections like tuberculosis, sarcoidosis and due to childhood allergic disorders like asthma etc. The findings are images and this is usually correlated with clinical symptoms, blood tests and skin tests.
Hope this will be helpful. I would be happy to help you in any further child health related questions.
Take care
It needs to be correlated with symptoms and clinical examination
Detailed Answer:
Hi
Welcome to the HCM
Prominent bilateral perihilar markings is only a part of the description of chest x ray and is not a diagnosis. It simply means that on chest x ray the lung fields are not clear on both the sides of midline where lungs vessels and airways start branching.
Prominent bilateral perihilar markings could sometimes indicate presence of edema of fluid. This can be seen in pulmonary edema, in chronic infections like tuberculosis, sarcoidosis and due to childhood allergic disorders like asthma etc. The findings are images and this is usually correlated with clinical symptoms, blood tests and skin tests.
Hope this will be helpful. I would be happy to help you in any further child health related questions.
Take care
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Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
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