[A system of comprehensive screening for tuberculosis and other chronic diseases of the respiratory organs in a rural area].
Pulmonary disease screening system, including fluorography, interview and external respiration function tests was used in 6 regions of this country. Out of 90,262 people examined, 23,360 persons were subjected to external respiration function test. As a result of the screening, the following conditions were detected: active tuberculosis in 0.02-0.8%, lung cancer in 0.02-0.3%, X-ray positive and X-ray negative chronic non-specific bronchopulmonary diseases in 0.12-3.7% and 7.7-15.2% of these cases, respectively.
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D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008403:Mass Screening; D012424:Rural Population; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014586:USSR
Sistema kompleksnogo skrininga tuberkuleza i drugikh khronicheskikh bolezneĭ organov dykhaniia v usloviiakh sel'skoĭ mestnosti.