Tuberculosis chest x-ray

There are many types of diseases. There are some reasons for any disease. Therefore, good treatment methods are also needed for the treatment of diseases. Common diseases are very simple, such as colds, coughs, and getting angry. These diseases are not very harmful to human health. For some complex diseases, the damage to human health is very large. What about chest X-rays for tuberculosis?

Through a chest X-ray of tuberculosis, we can understand the patient's disease condition. At the same time, tuberculosis is a very serious disease. Such a disease has serious damage to all aspects of the human body. Therefore, its treatment must be timely.

Tuberculosis chest radiograph:

Findings of pulmonary tuberculosis on chest radiographs

(1) Miliary tuberculosis: The chest X-ray features are that acute cases have uniform size, density, and evenly distributed miliary shadows of 1 to 3 mm. Subacute or chronic cases have lesions mainly in the upper and middle parts, and the lesions may fuse with each other.

(2) Infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis: This type of pulmonary tuberculosis has various chest X-ray manifestations. In mild cases, it may only show spots or linear shadows at the apex of the lung, or infiltration under the clavicle, or tuberculoma with clear edges. In severe cases, it may show lobar infiltration, cavitation, bronchial dissemination, lobar or lobular caseous pneumonia. Polymorphous lesions that occur frequently in the posterior segment of the upper lobe apex and the dorsal segment of the lobules are often described as the classic X-ray features of secondary pulmonary tuberculosis. However, in recent years, many doctors have noticed that not all pulmonary tuberculosis meets the above characteristics. Some researchers have found that one-third of newly discovered pulmonary tuberculosis in the elderly has atypical X-ray manifestations. Tuberculosis in the lower lung fields accounts for 1% to 7%, that is, the lesions are located in the basal segments of the lower lobe and the middle lobe. With the relative and/or absolute increase in pulmonary tuberculosis in the elderly, some authors reported that nearly half of elderly pulmonary tuberculosis patients had lesions located in the middle and lower lung fields and had many complications. Patients with AIDS may present with features of primary tuberculosis, such as infiltration of the middle and lower lung fields, hilar and mediastinal lymphadenopathy, hematogenous dissemination, and extrapulmonary tuberculosis, but cavities are rare. When combined with diabetes, lung lesions are often dominated by caseous and exudative features, and cavities are easily formed.

(3) Chronic fibrocavitary type: Chest X-rays often show single or multiple fibrous thick-walled cavities and new and old bronchial lesions of different ages, often accompanied by secondary changes such as pleural hypertrophy, cardiac and tracheal migration, hilar elevation, willow-like pulmonary vessels, and compensatory emphysema in the remaining lung.

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of chest X-ray of tuberculosis. When tuberculosis patients have physical examinations, they need to undergo various examinations, and chest X-ray of tuberculosis is one of them. Such a project can also give us a good understanding of the patient's physical illness and know the patient's disease condition.