[Diagnosis of pleurisy of tuberculous etiology]

Among the 367 patients with the pleurisy syndrome examined in a specialized diagnostic department, 167 (45.5%) had tuberculous pleurisy and the active stage of pulmonary tuberculosis was diagnosed in 42 (25.1%); in 125 subjects pleurisy was an independent form of tuberculosis. The possibilities of the clinico-roentgenologic, bioptic and bacteriologic diagnosis of the disease etiology have been studied in different variants of the X-ray picture (unblocked, partially sacculated, sacculated and adhesive pleurisy).