Difficulties in the differential diagnosis of disseminated processes in the lungs

Abstract

Disseminated lung diseases are still a difficult diagnostic problem. Modern endoscopic techniques for minimally invasive diagnostics allow to verify the diagnosis in more than 3/4 of patients. However, the incidence of diagnostic errors at initial evaluation without biopsy remains high. The reasons for errors are the actual complexity of differential diagnosis of disseminated processes, failure to properly examine the patients, late or insufficient use of high-resolution computed tomography and bronchoscopy with releveant biopsies.