COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 901 dosis to activity and generalization of the disease seems distinct. Positive tonsillar specimens were fewer than had been reported, but even lower figures have been quoted. These differences might be due to differences in selecting patients, and taking and processing biopsies. In tonsillar specimens, granulomas were sparsely located. Therefore, in some of our cas...

A 22-year-old woman had an abnormal chest X-ray (Fig. 1) in her regular health examination. She was asymptomatic and a non-smoker. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a 4-cm soft tissue mass with internal calcifi cation (Fig. 2A) and enhancement in the left lower lobe (Fig. 2B). The patient received left lower lobectomy. What is the diagnosis? A. Bronchogenic carcinoma B. Bronchopulmonary c...

Surgical treatment for central bronchogenic carcinoma with invasion of the main bronchus and pulmonary artery often include bronchial anastomosis and pulmonary angioplasty. As a technique, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy has proven to reduce the rate of occurrence of complications, and thereby obtain improved survival rates. In the present case study, its use in treating c...

BACKGROUND For many years in the United States transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) has been used with flexible bronchoscopy to diagnosis bronchogenic carcinoma, but very few data are available from the United Kingdom. METHODS All bronchoscopies performed for suspected bronchial carcinoma at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, over the last 3 years were reviewed retrospectively. ...

Imaging plays an integral role in diagnosing, staging, and following patients with lung cancer. Most lung tumors are detected on chest radiographs, but unfortunately, the majority of patients have advanced stage disease at presentation. There is a wide spectrum of radiologic manifestations of lung cancer, and recognition of these findings is essential for patient management. As we continue to u...

(Late House Physician, Medical College Hospital, and Honorary Assistant, Pathology Department, Medical College, Calcutta) In recent medical literature we find an unusually large number of reports of primary carcinoma of the lung. This undoubtedly shows a gradually increasing frequency of the disease. Not very long ago, primary carcinoma of the lung was looked upon as a rarity and Adler (1912) c...

There have been numerous reports as to the clinical results obtained with the chloroethylamines (nitrogen mustards) In the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease, lymphosarcoma and leukemia.’-11’9 There has been a paucity of reported clinical trials in regard to the treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma with nitrogen mustard despite the fact that a few cases of carcinoma of the lung treated with nitrogen...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the locations of lung carcinomas in relation to patient gender and smoking status. METHODS In order to test the hypothesis that lung carcinoma location (upper or lower lobe; left or right side) is correlated with smoking status and gender, we conducted a retrospective study of 697 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma treated at the Pulmonology-Oncology Outpatient Clinic o...