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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Imaging elderly Clinical analysis of pulmonary tuberculosis 【Abstract】 Objective To senile tuberculosis X-ray imaging study of the characteristics of analysis. Methods now I am inpatient admitted from 2006 to 2008 analysis of 260 cases of senile pulmonary tuberculosis were observed imaging changes. Results of senile pulmonary tuberculosis in general more men than women, extensive lesions and complex in nature, performance varied. Conclusions Elderly tuberculosis risk factors and more prone to refractory, X-ray imaging complex, to be closely combined with the clinical. Keywords: senile pulmonary tuberculosis;X Line image; clinical analysis of The fourth national study of tuberculosis over the age of a sample survey of tuberculosis prevalence rate of 60 linear upward trend, in order to further enhance the imaging of this disease awareness, now 260 cases of senile pulmonary tuberculosis X-ray imaging analysis. A clinical data 1.1 General Information 260 cases of male patients, 182 cases, female 78 cases; male: female = 2.33:1, aged 60 to 87 years old, with an average 68.3 years old, were clinically diagnosed as tuberculosis. 1.2 Clinical manifestations Mainly manifested as cough, sputum production: 200 cases (77%); sputum with blood: 72 cases (28%); hemoptysis: 42 cases (16%); shortness of breath, difficulty in breathing: 74 cases (28%); chest pain : 13 cases (5%); fever: 15 cases (5.7%); night sweats: 48 cases (18%); body weight significantly reduced: 24 cases (9%); anorexia: 56 cases (21%). 2 Imaging observations 2.1 All analysis were performed X-ray objects, according to “China Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases,” published in the revised classification of tuberculosis in China will be divided into five types of TB [1], the base of 247 cases of invasive (95%); blood lines Disseminated type 2 cases (0.8%), chronic fibro-cavitary type in 6 cases (2.3%); tuberculous pleuri