title: [Present clinical appearances of tuberculosis in hospital practive: their diagnostic difficulties (author's transl)].
abstract: Even if tuberculosis has become now rare in France, the frequency of new cases in general hospital practice remains 1,4% of incomers. More than 50% of man and 80% of women attacked with tuberculosis are 60 years old or more. Pulmonary tuberculosis represents 60% of these cases but other localizations are various and multifocal in 22,8% of cases. Two points are emphasized: the difficulties of the diagnosis in some specially misleading cases and the fatal prognosis of 8,5% of cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014375:Tuberculoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D014390:Tuberculosis, Meningeal / Q000175:diagnosis; D014394:Tuberculosis, Osteoarticular / Q000175:diagnosis; D014396:Tuberculosis, Pleural / Q000175:diagnosis; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Aspects cliniques actuels de la tuberculose dans un service de médecine générale. Leur difficulté diagnostique.