Abstract Percussion of chest in children is often avoided by busy pediatric respiratory practioners and resident doctors. May be it doesnt yield more diagnostic information than auscultation. Pleural effusion, pneumonias, pneumothorax and pericardial effusion are few of the serious issues that can be easily suspected and differentiated only by percussion; while auscultation interpretes all these four as reduced air entry without foreign sounds. Authors are concerned; if physicians and medical students tend to overlook these diagnoses and insist for a radiogram that not only takes time and delays diagnsis or therapy ; but also is relatively expensive and exposes the child to radiations.
Keywords: Percussion; Clinical Skill; Pneumothorax; Clincial Diagnosis.