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How to distinguish pneumoconiosis from pulmonary tuberculosis

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, Simple early stage of pneumoconiosis, there are no symptoms, once combined with other lung diseases, will show some symptoms. If the physical examination is carried out regularly, the chest X-ray will be very similar to that of some other lung diseases.

Simple early stage of pneumoconiosis, there are no symptoms, once combined with other lung diseases, will show some symptoms. If the physical examination is carried out regularly, the chest X-ray will have a very similar image to that of some other lung diseases. The most common is to be distinguished from pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer, which mainly depends on the symptoms.

Pulmonary tuberculosis

The relationship between pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis can be said to be one of the easy complications of pneumoconiosis, and it is mainly to check whether pulmonary tuberculosis has been accompanied by chest X-ray, that is, in pneumoconiosis radiography, ask the patient whether there are new symptoms. Tuberculosis is generally active in the initial stage, with night sweats, loss of appetite, fever, palpitations and so on, and fever is characterized by long-term low fever.

If it is complicated with acute hematogenous disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis, uniform scattered nodules of the whole lung will appear on the chest film, the sedimentation rate of red blood cells in the laboratory will increase, the positive reaction of tuberculin test, and tuberculosis smear culture can also be carried out. If there are no symptoms of tuberculosis and high fever, it may be secondary silicosis. Therefore, the examination of western medicine must also be closely related to the symptoms.

Pneumoconiosis anatomy

To distinguish between the two, mainly to see whether there is a phenomenon of pulmonary tuberculosis, if in essence, pneumoconiosis is an occupational disease, there is an obvious history of particulate matter and dust inhalation, if there is no occupational, chest X-ray will appear all non-uniform scattered nodules and other pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumoconiosis similar pulmonary radiography, naturally in the symptom performance will also have tuberculosis unique symptoms.

 
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