20 years of experience in the use of radiophotography in the prevention of tuberculosis
Seiciu, P.; Dumitrescu, P.; Sava, N.; Alexandru, S.
Revista de Igiena Bacteriologie Virusologie Parazitologie Epidemiologie Pneumoftiziologie. Pneumoftiziologia 24(3): 158-159
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0377-5011 PMID: 171747 Document Number: 93044
Based on a 20 years experience in the application of the pulmonary radiological control relying on radiophotography, the authors reached the following conclusions: -- 40% of subjects considered as suspect following radiophotography were confirmed to have pathological thoracic changes of which 8.5% with acitve pulmonary tuberculosis; in 1954 60% new cases were detected with 73% early forms of the disease and in 1973, 85% of new cases with 90% early forms of the disease; the effects of annual integral radiophotographic defection, correlated with other forms of anti-tuberculous fight, can be expressed in the following morbidity data : in 1954 -- 1.400.000 ; in 1956 -- 870.000 ; in 1957 -- 300.000 ; in 1962 -- 170.000 ; in 1963 -- 80.000 ; in 1966 -- 50.000. This last figure was maintained until 1969, two small increases being noted in the following two years (1970 and 1971). In the last year (1973) the figure was 40.000.