Abstract
The goal of current research was to study a pathology of a thorax at the men getting to the penal institutions. The study has been carrying out during four years in one investigatory isolation ward in Moscow. Fluorographic examinations of all prisoners conducted on the first by three days when men have got at this place. Fluorographic films made in 29298 convicts aged 19-60 were analyzed. Abnormal fluorograms were revealed in 7.4% prisoners; the changes were tuberculosis-associated in 78% of cases. 40.4% persons of them had posttuberculous changes: calcifications in the lungs and thoracic lymph nodes, fibrosis, solid foci and 59.6% persons of them had signs of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Among a pathology of organ of the thorax which has been not bound to a tuberculosis acute pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), a lung cancer prevailed. Acute pneumonias were 71%, COPD – 16.7%, lung cancer – 4.3%.
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