Diagnosis of lung cancer in the general therapeutic departments of the hospital
Bakulin, M.P.; Bogdan, O.V.; Malov, I.Ia.; Taĭts, R.N.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 63(2): 92-95
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 2048034 Document Number: 371591
The authors review the therapeutic aspects of lung carcinoma (LC) diagnosis based on the follow-up of 80 patients with LC referred to the hospital for different nonspecific pulmonary diseases (pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchial asthma). Point to the diagnostic significance of the therapeutic microsymptomatology (inexplicable leukocytosis, fever, alterations in the character of cough and sputum, appearance of asphyxia and so forth), measurement of the level of hormones and biologically active substances with regard to the clinico-roentgenological appearance in identification of LC in the general therapeutic departments of the hospital. Analyze the diagnostic errors in the patients' group under examination.