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Background : The diagnosis in cases of mediastinal and/or hilar lymphadenopathy with no lung parenchymal involvement is often difficult. We undertook this study to assess the diagnostic value of flexible bronchoscopy (FOB) especially transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) and transbronchial lung biopsy (TBLB) in these patients.

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Letters to the Editor to take their children to a physician and get proper treatment in case they developed sore throat in the future. All children who were symptomatic with BHS throat infection were given a course of antibiotic. Rheumatic heart disease causes high morbidity among the young in our country and its prevention needs to be given a serious thought. Further studies need to be taken up to understand the carrier rate of B-haemolytic streptococcal throat infection among healthy and sick children as well as in adults in order to implement prophylactic measures against the infection and its sequale.

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