In children exposed to tuberculosis, chest radiography helped in detecting asymptomatic coprevalent TB and predicting incident TB after baseline, according to a study in American Journal of ...

A chest X-ray can usually detect active tuberculosis (TB) but not latent TB. In either case, you’ll need a sputum test to confirm a diagnosis. Doctors often use chest X-rays to help diagnose ...

On a chest X-ray, pleural effusion appears as an area of equal opacity, typically at the lung base. Pleural effusion in TB may also indicate a related pleural infection. Lymphadenopathy ...

THE great value of x-ray examination of the chest in tuberculosis case-finding programs is beyond a doubt. Bloch and his associates1 in 1938 stated the strong position of roentgenology: "Failure to ...

COMMUNITY-WIDE x-ray surveys had been conducted in eight cities of the United States of over 100,000 population, in co-operation with the Division of Tuberculosis of the United States Public Health ...

The study included radiology reports and data from 1,961 patients (median age, 72 years; 993 female), with one chest X-ray per patient, obtained from four Danish hospitals.

“Although tuberculosis can be a serious disease, it is a treatable infection,” said Dr. William Nettleton, Medical Director of Kalamazoo County HCS. ... weight loss and abnormal chest X-ray.

A person at Kalamazoo Central High School was recently diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB), Kalamazoo County government said in a news release. ... weight loss and abnormal chest X-ray.