A young woman with an occult bronchogenic carcinoma presented with secondary amenorrhea and an elevated beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin that was mistakenly attributed to pregnancy. Physicians should be aware that this carcinoma may present solely with an elevated beta human chorionic gonadotropin value, and the potential exists for confusion with a pregnancy state in women of child...

This study evaluates local pulmonary immune effector cell lytic activity. Purified lymphocyte populations were isolated from BALF obtained from 18 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma, six patients with lung disorders other than cancer, and ten normal control volunteers matched for age and smoking history. These cells were evaluated for NK and LAK cell lytic activity against NK-resistant LAK-se...

OBJECTIVE Despite technical difficulties due to mediastinal fibrosis, repeat mediastinoscopy can be a valuable tool in the restaging of lung cancer. It provides essential pathological information on mediastinal invasion when selecting patients for surgical resection after induction chemotherapy in stage IIIa disease. The aim of our study was to evaluate the feasibility, sensitivity and accuracy...

A patient is described with a unilateral pleural effusion persistently infected with Salmonella enteritidis. The infection was eventually eradicated with ciprofloxacin. A computed tomographic scan and mediastinal lymph node biopsy demonstrated an underlying small cell bronchogenic carcinoma.

This survey was undertaken as part of a general programme for the investigation of the possibility of an association between susceptibility to disease and eye and hair colour. No evidence of such an association in the case of bronchogenic carcinoma was found, but evidence on various other aspects of this disease was obtained, more especially statistical confirmation of views already put forward...

An association linking multiple myeloma with a higher incidence of carcinomatous tumours has been reported. The following case report describes a man diagnosed as having bronchogenic carcinoma found also to have myelomatosis. Aspects of this association are discussed.

BACKGROUND Surgery for patients with left central bronchogenic carcinoma invading the carina is challenging due to the complexity of left sleeve pneumonectomy, carinal resection, and airway reconstruction and management. Here we describe a modified approach to overcome this problem. CASE PRESENTATION Between March 2011 and September 2012, two patients with left central bronchogenic carcinoma ...

The relationship between tumor volume doubling time and survival was studied in 28 patients with histologically confirmed bronchogenic carcinoma with the following characteristics: the cancers presented radiographically as circumscribed peripheral nodules first observed at a diameter of 0.6 to 1.4 cm, and follow-up was maintained until death or for at least 8.5 years from the time the tumor was...

Actinomycosis is a slowly progressive infectious disease caused by an anaerobic and microaerophilic bacteria that colonizes the face, neck, lung, pleura and the ileocecal region. There have been a few cases of this disease which have involved in the lung but one very rare case has been reported. We report a case of foreign body-induced endobronchial actinomycosis mimicking bronchogenic carcinom...