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Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Progression: • Upper lobe ... Diagnosis: Latent ... Tuberculin skin test ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Patterns of Involvement
 • Scarring, Nodules and Consolidation
    - Lobar
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... Consolidation - Lobar ... - Innumerable, bilateral ... xray #clinical #radiology ... #CXR
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Progression: • Upper lobe ... Diagnosis: Latent ... Tuberculin skin test ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Left lower lobe atelectasis - There is a triangular density seen through the cardiac shadow.
This must
Left lower lobe ... confirmed on the lateral ... this is lower lobe ... opposite #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #LLL #Lobar
TB
This patient presented first with the CXR on the left.
The findings are:
Widespread ill-defined densities, which are
first with the CXR ... reactivation of a latent ... A CXR some years ... later on the right ... #CXR #Tuberculosis
Left upper lobe atelectasis
What are the findings?
 - Minimal volume loss with elevation of the left
Left upper lobe ... the left upper lobe ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... LUL #Lobar #Collapse
Right middle lobe atelectasis
First study the x-rays and then continue reading.
What are the findings?
Blurring of the
density on the lateral ... view, but the lateral ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... RML #MiddleLobe #Lobar
Primairy TB is usually clinically silent.
In 5% of infected individuals the immunity is inadequate and clinically
reactivation of the latent ... On the CXR it is ... the left upper lobe ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Tuberculosis
There is an atelectasis of the left upper lobe.
You would not expect the apical region to
the left upper lobe ... overinflation of the lower lobe ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Lateral # ... LUL #Lobar #Collapse
Left-Middle-Lobe Pneumonia - Radiography of the chest revealed a cardiac apex, aortic arch, and gastric bubble
Left-Middle-Lobe ... the body and a lobar ... pneumonia was diagnosed ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Kartagener