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[INFORMATIVITY OF COMPUTER DENSITOMETRY FOR ASSESSING THE DEGREE OF ACTIVITY OF THE INFLAMMATORY PROCESS IN PULMONARY
M Lynnyk1, М Gumeniuk1, I Kalabukha1
11GU "National Institute of Phthisiology and Pulmonology named after F.G. Yanovsky NAMS of Ukraine "; 2National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education named after P.L. Shupika, Kiev, Ukraine.
Abstract:
In order to establish the levels of densitometric indicators of CT of the chest for various degrees of activity of a specific inflammatory process, the histopathological findings of the resected material were analyzed in 65 patients aged 24 to 60 years, 39 of them men, 25 women operated on pulmonary tuberculosis with a measurement of their densitometric indicators on CT of the chest. It is proved that computer densitometry is an objective non-invasive research method that allows you to establish with high confidence the degree of activity of a specific inflammatory process. The study of the average, minimum and maximum values of the density indicator on a fixed area of the axial section of the CT scan actually reflects the histological structure of the focus and allows you to identify areas with high activity of a specific inflammatory process.
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