Haygood T M, Briggs J E
Department of Radiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque 87131-5336.
Mil Med. 1992 Mar;157(3):113-6.
World War I recruits were screened for tuberculosis almost exclusively with a history and physical exam. Radiography was unavailable on a large scale and expensive. New techniques developed in Brazil and elsewhere in the 1930s made mass radiographic screening practical. During World War II, the U.S. Army and Navy took advantage of this new technology to screen an estimated 10 million personnel. This ambitious and successful case-finding program inspired, in part, continuing radiographic screening efforts among the civilian population following the war, including mass screening of asymptomatic individuals and routine hospital admission chest films.
第一次世界大战期间，新兵几乎完全通过病史和体格检查来筛查肺结核。当时，X射线摄影无法大规模开展且成本高昂。20世纪30年代在巴西和其他地方研发出的新技术使大规模X射线摄影筛查成为可能。第二次世界大战期间，美国陆军和海军利用这项新技术对约1000万人进行了筛查。这一雄心勃勃且成功的病例发现计划在一定程度上激发了战后平民群体持续进行X射线摄影筛查的努力，包括对无症状个体的大规模筛查以及常规住院胸部X光片检查。
