Neoplasms of the lung.

Neoplasms of the Lung

Primary neoplasms of the lung.

The amazing variety of primary neoplasms of the lung and the frequency with which they are encountered is appreciated more widely now than at any other period in the history of medicine. They were once thought by clinicians to be rare pathological curiosities, their antemortem diagnosis next to impossible, and treatment of them so unsatisfactory as to make a careful search for them a waste of t...

Investigating the Relationship Between Air Pollution and the Incidence Rate of Lung and Hematologic Neoplasms in Tehran

Background: Air pollution in large cities is one of the main difficulties that have harmful effects on humans and cause various diseases including cancers. So, present study with aim of determination the relation between air pollution and Incidence rate of two most common cancer in Tehran were performed.  Methods: at first, hourly data of pollutants including of CO, NO2, O3, SO2, PM10 were  ta...

Diseases of the respiratory system. Neoplasms of the lung.

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Localized Amyloid 'tumours' of the Lung Simulating Malignant Neoplasms.

Amyloidosis has been classified by Symmers (1956) into (1) generalized secondary amyloidosis; (2) generalized primary amyloidosis ; and (3) localized amyloidosis. Involvement of the respiratory tract by amyloid material in the generalized systemic form of the disorder is not as rare as is commonly supposed. In amyloidosis associated with a recognized predisposing disease the incidence is at lea...