Chest ACCP Member Benefits
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Guest Access | Sign In via User Name/Password
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF) Free
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Article Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by HEISER, S.
Right arrow Articles by SHAPIRO, J. H.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by HEISER, S.
Right arrow Articles by SHAPIRO, J. H.
(Chest. 1955;28:681-686.)
© 1955 American College of Chest Physicians

The Diagnostic Problem of Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions

SAUL HEISER M.D.1 and JEROME H. SHAPIRO M.D.1

1 The Department of Diagnostic Roentgenology, Montefiore Hospital, New York 67, New York.

1. The experience at one institution with the radiological and laboratory examinations performed in conjunction with evaluation of 78 obscure peripheral pulmonary lesions, all of whom eventually came to surgery, is presented.

2. The examinations included radiography, both thoracic and extrathoracic (the latter principally a search for a primary tumor) sputum for acid-fast organisms, bronchoscopy, and cytological studies.

3. The elapsed hospital time in accomplishing these investigations averaged about two weeks.

4. Histology of surgical specimens revealed bronchogenic carcinoma in 55 of the 78 cases.

5. The endeavor of establishing a lung lesion as metastatic or of tuberculous origin was particularly unrewarding.

6. The low percentage of positive returns in the diagnostic procedures described appears outweighed by the disadvantages of delaying definitive therapy and prolongation of hospitalization.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1955 by the American College of Chest Physicians.