Tuberculous pneumonia is a special form of pulmonary tuberculosis, inadequate registered in our population and therefore little studied. The present study was made in Service of Medicine of the Hospital Arzobispo Loayza, Lima-Perú, and our goals were to describe the clinical and radiographics characteristics in 20 adult women with tuberculous pneumonia and positive smear, and to establish the differences of greater meaning with a control group of 23 patients with lobar and/or basal bacterial pneumonia. Tuberculous pneumonia was characterized by a mean age of 28 years, duration of symptoms with a mean of 28 days; fever, productive cough and dysnea in all the cases; hiporexia-anorexy in 95%, thoracic pain in 50%, hemoptisis in 15%, tuberculous contact in 60%, condensation syndrome with or without pleural effusion 75%, and in the lower lung field in 80%, other radiographics findings that a...

Tuberculous pneumonia is a special form of pulmonary tuberculosis, inadequate registered in our population and therefore little studied. The present study was made in Service of Medicine of the Hospital Arzobispo Loayza, Lima-Perú, and our goals were to describe the clinical and radiographics characteristics in 20 adult women with tuberculous pneumonia and positive smear, and to establish the differences of greater meaning with a control group of 23 patients with lobar and/or basal bacterial pneumonia. Tuberculous pneumonia was characterized by a mean age of 28 years, duration of symptoms with a mean of 28 days; fever, productive cough and dysnea in all the cases; hiporexia-anorexy in 95%, thoracic pain in 50%, hemoptisis in 15%, tuberculous contact in 60%, condensation syndrome with or without pleural effusion 75%, and in the lower lung field in 80%, other radiographics findings that a...