Pulmonary tuberculosis can delay lung cancer and diagnose _'s general knowledge

Pulmonary tuberculosis can delay lung cancer and diagnose _'s general knowledge
December 6 (Reuter's medical news) According to South Korean scientific research personnel, pulmonary tuberculosis can delay a medical worker and prompt diagnosis to lung cancer of health care worker.
Dr. Young Il Kim and his colleague of the hospital of Seoul national university point out, pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) Behave with bronchus lung cancer similarly, thus can conceal lung cancer and pathological change. They have carried on radiology displaying and clinical meaning that a research aim at expounding bronchus lung cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis coexist on the same lobe of the lung.
Dr. Kim,etc. introduces, though pulmonary tuberculosis seems not to have anything that influence to the clinical feature of lung malignant tumour, but on condition that exist at the same time in two kinds of diseases, it is often apt to delay the diagnosis of patient's lung cancer.
Researchers have analyzed 51 the patient's materials suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchus lung cancer at the same time. They find and are made a definite diagnosis of with the lung cancer patient of pulmonary tuberculosis and often want the delay for almost one year. Most malignant tumour patients have already developed in the discovery for later period B or one) .
In these patients, great majority (82.4%) The leaf all on lung of tumour, and there is abnormality around tumour of the same proportion. In addition, there are 82.4% that present the mediastinal enlargement of lymph nodes in the malignant tumour patient. These clinical features and lung cancer clinical manifestation with pulmonary tuberculosis are similar.
Dr. Kim,etc. concludes, " pulmonary tuberculosis and pathological change can delay lung cancer to diagnose. This briefs on at the same time, have patients whose obvious enlargement of lymph nodes or lymph node is increasing constantly and resist tuberculosis or other drug therapy as to those but symptom does not still have obvious improved tuberculosis patient, should suspect the existence with lung cancer. "
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