The radiographic diagnosis and classification of early pulmonary tuberculosis / by Lewis Gregory Cole.

  • Cole, Lewis Gregory, 1874-1954.
Date:
1910
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    stage of necrosis. It may be limited to one or both apices (Fig. 3), or one lobe (Figs. 5 and 6), or it may involve one entire lung (Fig. 13), or part of both (Figs. 8 and 9). I have never seen a tuberculous lesion of the parenchyma without a typical tuberculous infiltration around the root. In some cases it is difficult to show the connection between the two processes, but with improved technique and more pathological radiography I Fig. 13.—A case of chronic, fibroid tuberculosis, so-called fibroid phthisis. The left side of the chest is retracted. B, heart is drawn over to the left side, or some say pushed over by the compensatory emphysematous lung. In the upper lobe there is a typically mottled infiltration (G). think that it will be established that all tuberculous lesions begin at the root and extend to the parenchyma. Radiographic examination of incipient cases indicates that in a very large percentage of cases the lesion at the root is more extensive than the parenchymal lesion: and so frequently radiograms show a distinct lesion at the root with no parenchymal involvement that it is reasonable to assume that it extends from the root to the paren- chyma. Radiating from the root to the apex in adults (Fig. 14), and