BRONCHOPULMONARY CANCER: CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND IMAGISTIC DATA
Abstract:
Bronchopulmonary cancer is the most important and frequent form of pulmonary tumor representing more than 90% from the primitive pulmonary malign and benign tumors.(5) It had the most expressed tendency of increasing among all neoplasia in the second half of the last century. In Romania this tumor presents a continous tendency of increasing in both genders having a prevalence of 8% and an incidence of 17% (18) from the point of view of the number of deaths by cancer is on the first place in the masculine gender and fourth place in the feminine gender.(6) Clinical manifestations of the bronchopulmonary cancer are of a great diversity raported to the anathomoclinical form, histological type and the stage of the disease. At the moment of their appereance, the clinical manifestations (pulmonary, extrapulmonary or general) are elements of advanced disease with the very probable evolution of the tumor for few years. (2 to 3 years for the small cells carcinoma and 10years for the adenocarcinoma).
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