Intracardiac extension of a bronchogenic carcinoma.

Comparison of bronchial brushing, washing and forceps biopsies in diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma

  Five hundred eighty patients underwent diagnostic flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy: during June 1988 to March 1993 at the bronchoscopy center of Kerman university of medical sciences. Seventy six specimens were obtained from patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and 155 from patients with benign disease of the lung. The efficiency of brushing and washing techniques was compared with forceps b...

Lung Carcinoma Metastasis to the Distal Part of Index Finger: A Case Report

Although acrometastases are rare but clinically they are considered important. Their etiology is quite different from the metastases to other sites; bronchogenic carcinoma is by far the most frequent case. The prognosis is always similar to metastatic bronchial cancer with an average survival of three mo...

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome due to Thrombosis: A Rare Paraneoplastic Presentation of Bronchogenic Carcinoma

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is not an uncommon occurrence in patients with malignancy and it is often described as a medical emergency. In majority of the cases, SVC syndrome occurs due to mechanical obstruction of the SVC by extraluminal compression with primary intrathoracic malignancies. However, intraluminal obstruction due to thrombosis can also produce symptoms and signs of SVC synd...

بررسی تظاهرات رادیوگرافیک وصحت تشخیص سرطان برنکوژنیک درکلیشه قفسه سینه‌‌

ABSTRACT Plain chest X-ray is the first diagnostic tool in suspected bronchogenic carcinoma because it is inexpensive, available and sensitive. The aim of the present study is to identify the diagnostic accuracy and radiographic appearance of bronchogenic carcinoma on plain chest X- ray. For these purposes, we reviwed chest radiographs of 78 cases with pathologically and/ or cytologically- p...

Intracardiac bronchogenic cyst: report of a growing lesion.