Bronchial Carcinoma

Bronchial carcinoma.

Bronchial Carcinoma

poorly-differentiated bronchial carcinoma

The production of serotonin (5-hydroxtryptamine) and certain related metabolites by tumours associated with the clinical carcinoid syndrome has now been well established. Many of the reported cases have concerned carcinoid tumours of the intestinal tract (Thorson, 1958 ; Macfarlane, Dalgliesh, Dutton, Lennox, Nyhus, and Smith, 1956) but tumours histologically resembling carcinoids, and also app...

Bronchial carcinoma and hypercalcaemia.

Hypercalcaemia due to malignant disease, in the absence of bone metastases, is generally regarded as a rare event. It occurred in 16% of a series of cases of bronchial carcinoma coming to necropsy. Hypercalcaemia is a relatively common complication of bronchial carcinoma. The hypercalcaemia is usually accompanied by hypophosphataemia and, in this respect, must be distinguished from the hypercal...

Reoperation for bronchial carcinoma.

After a primary operation for bronchial carcinoma, 17 patients underwent reoperation for local recurrence or intrathoracic metastasis (nine squamous cell, five alveolar cell, and three adenocarcinomas). The average interval between the first and second operation was 23 months (range: six to 48 months). Twelve patients had a pneumonectomy after an initial ipsilateral lobectomy. Five patients und...