[Ways of diagnosing patients with tuberculosis].
Data on detection of 1447 tuberculosis cases in Moscow were studied. The majority of the patients (57.5% of tubercle bacilli excretors and 55.8% of abacillary cases registered in 1985-1986) were detected as a result of their referral to health institutions. In the group of patients detected through preventive screening, 98.5% of tuberculosis cases were confirmed by means of a fluorographic method. If compared to the newly discovered cases, the patients with relapses of tuberculosis are detected much more frequently when they complain of the symptoms of this disease. No matter how different the ways of detecting tuberculosis might be, significant differences in the clinical composition of the patients were obtained which have nothing to do with their belonging to a certain social group. Many of the patients with focal tuberculosis, tuberculoma and disseminated tuberculosis are detected through preventive screening while those with infiltrative and fibrocavernous tuberculosis on their referral to health institutions.
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D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009031:Moscow; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000517:prevention & control*
Puti vyiavleniia bol'nykh tuberkulezom.