BRONCHIAL AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF BRONCHOPULMONARY NEOPLASM IN GORJ COUNTY
Abstract:
Bronchopulmonary cancer worldwide is a matter of public health being alarmingly increasing for the last 50-60 years. Bronchoscopy is an essential method of positive diagnosis both in peripheral bronchopulmonary cancer and in the central one. This investigation allows pre-surgical staging of lung cancer by determining the endobronchial extension. We analysed a batch of 780 patients examined from bronchoscopic and histopathological point of view at Tudor Vladimirescu Pneumophtisiology Hospital, from Runcu commune, Gorj County between 2005 and 2011 and at Tg-Cărbuneşti Emergency City Hospital from October 2011 until October 2012. Bronchoscopy with its endoscopic sampling methods (bronchial microlavage, broncho-alveolar lavage, multiple bronchial biopsies) allowed positive diagnosis, as well as histopathological diagnosis and pre-surgical staging. Lung cancer indicated the following histological types: squamous carcinoma (58,3%), adenocarcinoma (18,2%), small cells carcinoma (14,1%), big cells carcinoma (9,4%). Squamous carcinoma was more frequent in men, and adenocarcinoma was more frequent in women, which is in accordance with the specialized literature.(1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
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