Bronchiectasis in children presents as a wide spectrum of disease severity. Some children have intermittent symptoms of cough and occasional lower respiratory tract infection. Others experience daily cough and produce purulent fetid sputum, requiring frequent hospitalizations for respiratory exacerbations. The diagnosis should be considered in children with a daily productive cough (chronic cough) for longer than 4 weeks. An 12 year old child was admitted to department of paediatrics as a case of non-resolving pneumonia of 2 months duration. Which on investigation and examinanation was confirmed to be due to bronchiectasis

Keywords: Bronchiectasis, recurrent pneumonia, non resolving pneumonia

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Nasreen Ali

Junior Resident Department of Pediatrics, M.K.C.G Medical College,

Berhampur, Ganjam, Odisha - 760004, India