[A difficult case of the differential diagnosis of focal infiltrative lung changes in phthisiatric practice].

Errors occur rather commonly in the differential diagnosis of respiratory diseases accompanied by X-ray lung tissue changes as foci and infiltration. Infiltrative and disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis, lung cancer, and pneumonia constitute a high proportion among the detected concurrent lung diseases. The rate of diagnostic discordance for these lung abnormalities accounts for more than 30%; and the diagnosis period for an infiltrative lung process lasts 2–3 weeks in 20% of cases and above 1–3 months in 80%.