[Difficulties in diagnosis of specific pneumonia: clinical and pathomorphological confrontation]

Caseous pneumonia is one of acute kinds of tuberculosis. Difficulties in diagnosing of caseous pneumonia were described in this paper. Material contained 40 patients /28 men and 12 women/ mean age 53 +/- 16 years/ which died in The Hospital of Lung Diseases in Lódź. In this patients diagnosed caseous pneumonia. Analyse obtained many clinical parameters /age, sex, hospitalisation, period, investigation and medical, examination, results of bacteriological and radiological finding and autopsy diagnoses. Authors thought that the need of bacteriological examination and X-Ray examination in diagnosis of caseous pneumonia. Confrontation of clinical and pathomorphological diagnosis are very important.