Multiple primary lung cancer: a rising challenge

Childhood Cancer Rising to the challenge

Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Mimicking Primary Lung Cancer with Multiple Lung Metastases

Cryptococcosis is an invasive fungal infection, which is more common in immunocompromised patients. However, pulmonary cryptococcosis can occur in immunocompetent patients and should be considered on a differential diagnosis for nodular or mass-like lesions in chest radiograph. Recently, we experienced a patient with pulmonary cryptococcosis, successfully treated with oral fluconazole therapy. ...

Rising to the challenge.

Multiple primary lung cancers.

From November 1957 to June 1984 at Shanghai Chest Hospital, 30 cases of multiple primary lung cancers were confirmed, based on clinical characteristics, diagnostic process, histologic type, treatment, and prognosis. Out of 3,815 cases of resected primary lung cancer, the incidence of multiple primary lung cancers was 0.8 percent. There were ten synchronous cases and 20 metachronous cases. Seven...

[Diagnosis and Treatment for Multiple Primary Lung Cancer].

Multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) is an uncommon entity of the primary lung cancer. With the widespread use of early detection tools such as multislice spiral computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and the better survival results after resection of primary lung cancer, more and more MPLC have been detected. However, the current diagnostic and therapeutic methods cannot ...