Comparison of the frequency of the symptoms between the patients with lung cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis
Hara, H.; Matsushima, T.; Adachi, M.; Yagi, S.; Kawane, H.; Soejima, R.; Soda, K.; Sakurai, H.
Kekkaku 60(7): 405-410
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-9776 PMID: 4046282 Document Number: 247126
As the result of an analysis of the process of diagnosis in 374 lung cancer patinets who visited our hospital in the last 10 years, more than three months were needed to be diagnosed as lung cancer in 90 (30%) patients in the hospitals. Among them, 36 patients had been confused and treated for tuberculosis before visit to our hospital. So we studied on the frequency of the symptoms among the groups of 1) 374 lung cancer patients, 2) 36 lung cancer patients who had been treated by antituberculous chemotherapy, 3) 34 pulmonary tuberculous patients who admitted in 1980 and 1981, and 4) 33 patients with lower lung field tuberculosis. In consequence, the character and frequency of symptoms are similar in these four groups, but X-ray detection of cancer with symptoms of tuberculosis was often. It is considered to be difficult to discriminate between lung cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis by these symptoms or chest X-ray films, so it seems to need the farther valuable examinations in suspicious patients.