[Differential diagnosis of disseminated processes in the lungs in adolescents].

The paper deals with the data of follow-up of adolescents with disseminated pulmonary processes of different etiology. Among the patients who were treated in the department during the last 10 years disseminated processes amounted to 3.3%, with disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis being recorded in 1.3% and dissemination of the nontuberculous etiology in 2% of the patients. Mucoviscidosis, metastasis, of the thyroid cancer, histiocytosis X, toxoplasmosis and echinococcosis were among the disseminations of the nontuberculous etiology. Basic diagnostic criteria have been determined.