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(Chest. 1956;30:85-95.)
© 1956 American College of Chest Physicians

Pulmonary Metastases

IAN N. LEE 1

1 The Middlesex Hospital and Medical School.

1. One hundred autopsy confirmed cases of pulmonary carcinomatosis were analyzed, and correlated with the presence of metastases radiologically.

2. It was found that nearly 22 per cent of cancer cases had pulmonary metastases. The relative frequency of primary neoplasms producing such metastases is outlined, and their modes of spread (portal and systemic) compared.

3. The metastases were divided into five types according to their size and density. The product of their size and density was stressed as an important factor in radiological visualization.

4. The primary tumors comprising the series were graded according to their degree of malignancy and correlated with the frequency of pulmonary metastases.

5. Conclusions based on the radiological evidence were then discussed.






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