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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Demographics, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Chest radiograph, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Medications, HIV-infected patients, Drug-resistant TB, Pregnant or lactating women, Extrapulmonary disease, Surgery, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, Prognosis, When to Refer, When to Admit, Prevention, References,
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Topics Discussed: pulmonary tuberculosis.
Excerpt: | |  Primary disease
| | – Small unilateral infiltrates – Hilar and paratracheal lymph node enlargement – Segmental atelectasis – Pleural effusion is present in 30-40%, sometimes as the sole radiographic abnormality |
Reactivation tuberculosis | | – Associated with fibrocavitary apical disease, discrete nodules, and pneumonic infiltrates, usually in the apical or posterior segments of the upper lobes or in the superior segments of the lower lobes – Lower lung tuberculosis may masquerade as pneumonia or lung cancer |
A "miliary" pattern (diffuse small nodular..."
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