AUTHOR=Redding Gregory J. , Carter Edward R. TITLE=Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease in Children: Definition and Spectrum of Disease JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pediatrics VOLUME=5 YEAR=2017 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00030 DOI=10.3389/fped.2017.00030 ISSN=2296-2360 ABSTRACT=
The most common clinical suppurative lung conditions in children are empyema, lung abscess, and bronchiectasis, and to a less often necrotizing pneumonia. Until recently, bronchiectasis was the most common form of persistent suppurative lung disease in children. Protracted bacterial bronchitis is a newly described chronic suppurative condition in children, which is less persistent but more common than bronchiectasis (