Coexisting bronchogenic carcinoma and tuberculosis.
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NY TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM DEALING A actively with diagnostic problems in chest diseases is faced with the differentiation of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchogenic and metastatic pulmonary carcinoma?. The advancing average age of patients being treated for tuberculosis in sanatoria coupled with the well known increasing incidence of bronchogenic carcinoma brings to the fore a common problem related to the identification of these two conditions and their treatment. There are man) case reports of coexisting tuberculosis and carcinomas in the literature. There have been many attempts to relate these two conditions etiologically. A. early as 1855 Rokitanskg expresed his view upon the apparent incompatibility of these two diseases, based on pathologic findings. Fried in 1935 expressed a more acceptable theory that they might in fact be etiologically related by an unknown mechanism. Early theories pointed out that the changs produced in lung parenchyma and bronchi by tuberculosis, as metaplasia, smouldering infection and chronic irritation by calcified lymph nodes could easily be carcin~genic.'~ However, as often as not the two conditions were found in many case reports to be in entirely separate portions of the lung. We should Wre to present some of the relationships that were found to exist in mtienb who had both diiasa durinz a
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Diseases of the chest
دوره 50 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966