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Pulmonary tuberculosis in Alzab district | ||
| Medical Journal of Tikrit | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 161, 2012, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hassan I. Sultan; Mohemid M. Al-Jebouri | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study in Alzab district was done to identify the new cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and their clinical, radiological and laboratory features, and try to provide a method to control the spread of this disease. It included 30 patients, 17 patients were males and 13 patients were females, the mean age of the patients was 30.2 years. The disease predominantly affected young people. Smoking has no significant correlation to pulmonary TB. The common presenting symptoms were cough, fever, sputum, weight loss and sweating with high ESR. The common radiological features were nonhomogenous opacities, cavitory lesions and pleural effusion. All patients were reviewed after 2 months and 5 months of treatment for further assessment, which revealed significant improvement of symptoms, decrease. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Pulmonary tuberculosis in Alzab district | ||
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