[Bronchoscopy in pulmonary tuberculosis in children]

We retrospectively analyzed thirty-seven cases of infantile pulmonary tuberculosis that had been subjected to bronchoscopy. Although this exploration produced evidence of bronchial wall irritation, the macroscopic findings, as well as the histological ones, were frequently insufficient to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The bacteriological study of bronchial exudates of these patients was more efficient since we encountered BAAR in 34.2% of the samples.