Pulmonary Infarcts Associated with Bronchogenic Carcinoma

Pulmonary resection for infarction simulating bronchogenic carcinoma.

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Bronchogenic Carcinoma: Relation to Antecedent Pulmonary Infection.

Co-existent pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchogenic carcinoma.

Case Report The patient first attended East Ham Chest Clinic in September 1953, when he was 68 years old. He complained of persistent cough for one year, which had been worse for the previous two months. It was associated with about an eggcupful of whitish sputum daily. He had experienced night sweats for one week, during which he complained of a pleuritic type of pain in the right chest. There...

Bronchogenic carcinoma in patients with pulmonary histiocytosis X.

Five cases of bronchogenic carcinoma were observed among 93 patients with pulmonary histiocytosis X (Hx). Mean age at the time of diagnosis of Hx was 42 years; on the average, cancer occurred 10.5 years later. All patients were smokers and continued to smoke heavily at the time of diagnosis of cancer. Comparison of the five cases associating Hx and lung carcinoma with a group of 88 control pati...

Primary bronchogenic carcinoma associated with emphysematous giant bulla.

Operations for emphysematous giant bulla have been performed on 17 patients. Complications of primary lung cancer were observed in four of the 17 patients. All the patients who had such lung cancer were male and heavy smokers. As to histological type, squamous cell carcinoma were found in three patients and undifferentiated cancer of large cell type in one patient. The three had squamous cell c...