Pulmonary Tuberculosis with Negative Findings on Chest
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چکیده
AlL positive diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis can be made only on obtaining a positive sputum or gastric culture for M tuberculosis. The chest x-ray film and tuberculin skin test1 have been used as screening methods. During the third year after the introduction of the acetylcysteine method of digestion at our facility,* 40 cases of active tuberculosis with chest x-ray films read as negative were discovered.
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