%0 Journal Article
%T Comparison of Clinical and Radiology Manifestation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Younger and Elderly Patients
%A Ghorbani Gholamali
%A Alishiri Gholamhossain
%A A. Esfahan
%J Journal of Medical Sciences
%D 2007
%I 
%X To study the differences of presentation pulmonary tuberculosis related with age. This study is a retrospective as case-control match in one hundred patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in Iran for five years. All patients had pulmonary tuberculosis divided in two group, younger (age<50) as control and older (age¡Ý50) as case group. Data was collected included; clinical presentation and radiology manifestation. Data were analyzed with chi-square and student's t test and p<0.05 levels were significant. In here showed that 46 patients in control (mean age 28.6¡À6.8) and 54 patients in case (mean age was 67.5¡À8) were evaluated. In case group fever and cough were less than control (p<0.005). Fibrosis was more (p<0.005) and miliary was less in case group than control group (p<0.01). In conclusion, absence of fever and cough and increase of fibrosis should not be delayed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in elderly and physicians need to have a high level suspicion of unusual manifestation of tuberculosis in elderly patients.
%K clinical manifestation.
%K radiology
%K age
%K Pulmonary tuberculosis
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