Abstract
In our paper mill, 57 male workers with pulmonary tuberculosis, who had been detected by mass-screening examinations, were treated by the chemotherapy only. The following conclusions were brought about in result of the monthly observation of X-ray films of those patients.
1) The effectiveness of chemotherapy on workers with physical labour was more favourable in comparison to desk workers.
2) The old age group of 40 years or older showed a less improvement of X-ray findings than the other group of the younger than 40 years of age.
3) In the exsudative caseous form, roentogenographic findings of cases with “minimal” lesions revealed more favourable improvement in comparison to “moderately” or “far advanced” cases. However, in the fibroid caseous form the response to the chemotherapy was varied.
4) The chemotherapy in working place, home rest and hospital was most effectively responsed, of course, by the hospitaliztion, and the chemotherapy in working place was least effective.
