DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF ROUNDED FORMATIONS IN THE LUNGS
Relevance of the topic: In most cases, the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis can be established on the basis of a combination of clinical, x-ray and laboratory data. However, some patients have difficulties in diagnosis and it is necessary to conduct differential diagnostics with other diseases, using a number of additional methods. In particular, in the presence of so-called rounded formations in the lungs, tuberculosis lesions have to be differentiated with malignant and benign neoplasms, cysts, focal pneumonia, echinococcosis and a number of other diseases.