PROBLEMS PRESENTED BY PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN PATIENTS OVER FIFTY
Authors: E L LEECH
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1950)

Article1 August 1950PROBLEMS PRESENTED BY PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN PATIENTS OVER FIFTYELFRED L. LEECH, M.D., F.A.C.P.ELFRED L. LEECH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-2-321 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSooner or later the observant student of pulmonary tuberculosis is impressed by the problems presented by patients in the older age groups. Critical examination of the old misbelief that pulmonary tuberculosis is unusual in persons of advanced years1has resulted in many articles,1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12especially since 1930, directing the attention of the profession to the problems arising from the many cases of pulmonary tuberculosis present among older people. These writers have no doubt been so impressed by observed delays in diagnosis, by the continued recurrence of preventable infections caused by...Bibliography1. MyersAnderson JAHR: The significance of tuberculosis among the aged, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 21: 541-557, 1930. Google Scholar2. Banyai AL: Pulmonary tuberculosis in the aged, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 21: 568-578, 1930. Google Scholar3. Rubin EH: Pulmonary tuberculosis in the aged, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 26: 516-529, 1932. Google Scholar4. Joress MH: Pulmonary tuberculosis in old people, New England J. Med. 219: 885-887, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. Myers JA: The physician and tuberculosis, J. A. M. A. 113: 189-194, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. HrubyHenrichsen AJKJ: Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in the aged, M. Clin. North America 24: 45-61, 1940. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. Wiese ER: Tuberculosis in the aged, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 41: 210-214, 1940. Google Scholar8. FreemanHeiken JTCA: The geriatric aspect of pulmonary tuberculosis, Am. J. M. Sc. 202: 29-38, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. Godfrey ES: Epidemiology of tuberculosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 43: 1-10, 1941. Google Scholar10. Rest A: Tuberculosis in old age, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 45: 280-287, 1942. Google Scholar11. MillerHenderson REB: Undiagnosed tuberculosis in elderly persons, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 46: 164-171, 1942. Google Scholar12. Myers JA: Tuberculosis among persons over fifty years of age, Geriatrics 1: 27-39, 1946. MedlineGoogle Scholar13. Decker HR: Experience with collapse therapy pulmonary tuberculosis in fifth and sixth decades, J. Thorac. Surg. 7: 351-364, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14. Overholt RH: Thoracoplasty in older patients, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 41: 143-162, 1940. Google Scholar15. ShapiroMunz RCW: Thoracoplasty in the fifth and sixth decades, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 42: 631-639, 1940. Google Scholar16. DiamondIvey SHT: Artificial pneumothorax in patients over forty, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 43: 475-490, 1941. Google Scholar17. Snell WE: Senile tuberculosis, Tubercle 22: 111-120, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar18. Dauer CC: Sex differences in tuberculosis mortality in the United States, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 37: 435, 1938. Google Scholar19. HandyCrage VHWD: A tuberculosis case-finding program in Erie County, New York, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 59: 78-85, 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Oneonta, New York*Received for publication April 25, 1949.From the Homer Folks Tuberculosis Hospital, Oneonta, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie Lungentuberkulose des hohen Alters 1 August 1950Volume 33, Issue 2Page: 321-332KeywordsAge groups ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1950 PDF downloadLoading ...