PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS - HOW TO DECREASE THE DELAY IN TREATMENT

Authors
Citation
G. Huchon, PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS - HOW TO DECREASE THE DELAY IN TREATMENT, Medecine et maladies infectieuses, 25(3), 1995, pp. 299-303
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
ISSN journal
0399077X
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
299 - 303
Database
ISI
SICI code
0399-077X(1995)25:3<299:PT-HTD>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Symptoms of tuberculosis are most often not evocative; what is suggest ive of tuberculosis is the existence of risk factors for the disease a nd chronic symptoms. Patients consult their physician with variable de lays that depend on factors that are not well identified yet; physicia ns evoke the diagnosis more likely if they are familiarized with the d isease, what will probably become less frequent in areas of low preval ence for tuberculosis. The key point is the thoracic radiography that is very often very suggestive and leads by the recourse to bacteriolog y or by convergent diagnostic elements to treatment.