Accuracy of Chest X-Ray in Diagnosing Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Abstract

chest x-ray is important radiographic procedures during the management of lungs disorders and diagnosis tuberculosis aimed :to evaluate diagnostic Accuracy of chest x-ray in diagnosing tuberculosis .The problem of study was chest radiography demonstrated most of chest pathology, but the main problem arise when there on overlapped of pathology with dense structures and Bing late on discovering the patient affected with pulmonary tuberculosis threaten disease spread .Methods: Observational, cross sectional study, Descriptive , 75 patients come to x-ray department for check up chest x-ray suspected pulmonary Tuberculosis , males and females. were examined in Alshab teaching hospital and Alshahed Khalid public health center , during the period from (November 2015-march 2016). The variable collected from patient include gender, age, clinical sign and symptom, lab investigation sputum ,finding chest x-ray, the Data collection according include all above variable data. Result: the majority of samples were males greater than females, males 49(65%) and females 26 (34%). In this study peak incidence was among the age between (less than 30) years of age presenting (42%). The cough is most sign & symptomwith35patient(46%) . and lab investigations for sputum exam , positive sputum (60%), and negative (40%). Finding chest x-ray examination showed normal chest x-ray appearance (56%), and abnormal appearance tuberculosis (44%) ,sensitivity(70 %) ,specificity (42%) .The study recommended to use other modality on detecting tuberculosis with association of sign and symptoms for conformation. Finally the study showed that chest x-ray was not enough for tuberculosis diagnosing