中国と四国地方における肺結核と肺癌との合併症例に関する統計的観察

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A study based on questionaires was carried out in 64 hospitals in Chugoku and Shikoku area during the period from January 1972 to December 1976 to obtain informations on the relation between tuberculosis and carcinoma of the lung.<BR>As a result of survey, 118 (0.77%) out of 15, 261 patients with tuberculosis had cancer of the lung, and 118 (4.2%) out of 2, 815 patients with lung cancer had pulmonary tuberculosis, and 61 out of the 118 patients had active pulmonary tuberculosis.<BR>Establishing diagnosis of lung cancer was difficult in 33% of tuberculosis patients with coexist ing lung cancer. As to the influence of cancer on tuberculosis, tuberculosis deteriorated in 19% of tuberculosis patients who were found to have cancer. On the other hand, coexisting tuberculosis did not influence the course of cancer in the majority of cases except 7 patients in which associated tuberculosis gave favourable influence on the prognosis of cancer.
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