Variants of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis and the necessity of their differentiated treatment
- Authors: Smirnov G.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Kazan Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education
- Issue: Vol 75, No 6 (1994)
- Pages: 408-412
- Section: Theoretical and clinical medicine
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/kazanmedj/article/view/100065
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/kazmj100065
- ID: 100065
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Abstract
The results of observations of 1196 patients being first ill with destructive pulmonary tuberculosis are analysed. By quantitative and qualitative characteristics of destructive pulmonary process, 5 categories are revealed differing widely in rate and terms of the decay cavities close and results by the action of chemotherapy. pulmonary tuberculosis with minimum destruction, bounded destructive, tuberculomas with decay and fibrocavernous pulmonary tuberculosis. The necessity to develop the differenciated therapy methods of destructive pulmonary tuberculosis depending on its quantitative and qualitative characteristics is stressed.
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G. A. Smirnov
Kazan Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education
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Department of Phthisiology
Russian Federation, Kazan