Type:
Educational Exhibit
Authors:
E. Doménech Abellán, C. Serrano Garcia, A. Gilabert Úbeda, F. Valero García, B. García-Villalba Navaridas, F. Guzman Aroca; Murcia/ES
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2010/C-2910
Background
Tuberculosis is reappearing in non-endemic population due to the increase of immigration, immunosupression and resistance to the treatment. It presents a high rate of morbidity if an adequate and early treatment is not used.
The prevalence of the tuberculosis infection in our community is increasing. We find in our region a rate of 13/100 thousand population in patients of 0-5 years-old and 10.3/100 thousand in 5-10 years-old.
Infection by TBC shows a great variety of clinical finds and through images that can simulate a big number of diseases. Even though the thorax is the area most frequently affected, the disease may affect any other organs.
Therefore, it is important to become familiar with the most characteristic radiological findings in this entity.
We show different samples collected from May 1999 to September 2009 and their radiological characteristics in simple x-ray, ultrasound (US), TC and MR.