Table 5.

Differential Diagnosis of Airway Disease in Children

Asthma

Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia of infancy

Lymphocytic bronchiolitis (viral, aspiration, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, autoimmune)

Necrotizing bronchiolitis (viral, Stevens–Johnson syndrome)

Follicular bronchiolitis (Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease)

Constrictive and obliterative bronchiolitis (post-viral, chronic aspiration, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), allograft rejection)

Chronic bronchiolitis with bronchiectasis (cystic fibrosis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, immunodeficiency)