Does chest film show tuberculosis symptom?

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We should be familiar with tuberculosis. In ancient times, tuberculosis was called tuberculosis. If a patient with tuberculosis coughs a few times, people around him will give up. Tuberculosis is contagious, so people have some doubts about it. Afraid of being infected, how to check whether suffering from tuberculosis? It can be seen by chest X-ray. What are the characteristics of chest X-ray of tuberculosis.

Does chest film show tuberculosis symptom?

1. Miliary tuberculosis miliary tuberculosis is a kind of pulmonary tuberculosis. This kind of tuberculosis is divided into acute and subacute or chronic. Acute chest X-ray of patients with the same size, density, uniform distribution of 1-3 mm miliary shadow. In subacute or chronic patients, the lesions were mainly above middle, and the lesions could fuse with each other.

2. There are many kinds of chest films of patients with invasive pulmonary tuberculosis. In mild cases, tuberculoma with spot like, cord like shadow or subclavian infiltration or clear edge was found only in the apex of lung; In severe cases, lobar infiltration, cavity formation, bronchial dissemination, lobar or lobular caseous pneumonia may be present. The typical X-ray features of secondary pulmonary tuberculosis are the multiple morphological lesions in the posterior segment of the superior lobe apex and the dorsal segment of the lobule. However, the recent tuberculosis disease is becoming more and more non classic, and 1 / 3 of the newly found elderly patients with tuberculosis have atypical X-ray manifestations. The location of the lesions in elderly patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is mostly in the middle and lower lung fields, and there may be other complications.

3. The chest X-ray of patients with chronic fibrocavitary type often shows single or multiple fibrous thick walled cavities and old and new bronchial dissemination foci of different ages, with secondary changes such as pleural hypertrophy, cardiac and tracheal movement, pulmonary hilar elevation, pulmonary vascular drooping willow shape, residual lung compensatory emphysema, etc.

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Most of the pulmonary tuberculosis can be seen by chest X-ray, but there are a few patients who can not be diagnosed by chest X-ray, and need CT examination. In addition, the infection of tuberculosis is not so exaggerated. We may not be infected when we come into contact with tuberculosis patients.