Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

With the improvement of prevalent cognition ,people are more concerned about their physical health , more and more people start to take health examination. Unfortunately, a number of people find that they actually have pulmonary tuberculosis in the physical examination. Facing with this unfamiliar disease, people may be panicked and have no idea about it.In fact, as long as it is properly managed and treated, pulmonary nodules are not terrible. So what is a pulmonary nodule? Lung nodules refer to circular or irregular lesions with a diameter less than or equal to 3 cm in the lungs, which can be manifested as shadows with increased density, and lesions with clear or unclear boundaries. Lung nodules of different densities have different malignancy probabilities. According to the density of nodules, lung nodules are divided into three categories: solid nodules, partial solid nodules and ground glass density nodules. Among them, the malignant probability of some solid nodules is the highest, followed by ground glass density nodules and solid nodules. （CJLC NCBI，2016）