Can lung consolidation be cured?

Pulmonary consolidation is mostly treatable. Pulmonary consolidation is more common in pneumonia, a disease that causes lung consolidation and can be controlled in most cases with standard anti-infective therapy. In addition, pulmonary tuberculosis may also cause lung consolidation. There is a special type of tuberculosis called caseous pneumonia. The clinical manifestations and imaging findings of this disease are very similar to lobar pneumonia, and it also shows lung time-varying conditions. For this disease, after standard anti-tuberculosis treatment, in most cases the disease can be controlled, but also need to pay attention to severe pneumonia or severe tuberculosis, are potentially life-threatening. In addition, lung cancer this disease, sometimes in imaging and lobar pneumonia performance may be more similar, may be similar to lung consolidation. For lung cancer this disease, normally can not be completely cured.