Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Up-to- Date Imaging and Management

trol measures as well as for ensuring the ap-propriate therapy for infected patients. Un-fortunately, acid-fast bacilli are found in the sputum in a limited number of patients with active pulmonary TB [6]. Therefore, the im-aging diagnosis would provide an appropri-ate therapy for infected patients before the definitive diagnosis by the bacteriology. The aim of this article is to elaborate new con-cepts in the diagnosis and treatment of pul-monary TB in the 21st century, to review the characteristic imaging findings of various forms of pulmonary TB, and to assess the role of CT in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary TB