ABSTRACT
Introduction: The incidence of lung carcinoma has rapidlyincreased since the beginning of there 20th century and currentlyrepresents the main of cancer related mortality. Diagnosticsmethods may adequately explain frequent recognition of thepresence of neoplasm, but also a fact that histological findingshave yielded a considerably higher percentage. More recentlythe emergence of combined PET CT imaging has greatlyaided the investigation of lung carcinoma by allowing evenbetter delineation of areas with increased tracer uptake and byimproving staging and detection of metastatic disease, guidingtherapy and allowing clinical outcome to be predicted. Studyaimed to find the prevalence and associated symptoms of lungcarcinoma.Material and methods: The study included a 109 patientsand was a retrospective study. The method was to note thepresenting symptoms of bronchogenic carcinoma and tonote the site of metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma withPET CT. To note the variant of bronchogenic carcinoma withhistologically proven.Results: There were a total of 109 patients of which 77were male and 32 were female. The presenting symptom ofbronchogenic carcinoma was cough 75% preceded by weightloss 68%, dyspnea 60%, chest pain 49%, and hemoptysis 35%,bone pain 25%, clubbing 20%, fever 20%, weakness 10%,superior vena obstruction 4%, dysphagia 2%, wheeze andstridor 2%.Out of the 109 patients the frequent presentationof bronchogenic variant is adenocarcinoma 56%, followed bysquamous cell carcinoma 34% and small cell carcinoma 15%.Conclusion: The frequent symptom of bronchogeniccarcinoma presentation was cough followed by weight lossand dyspnea. The frequent site of metastatic of bronchogeniccarcinoma is supraclavicular node followed by contralaterallung, bone metastasis. majority of bronchogenic carcinomapresentation were of adenocarcinoma followed by squamouscell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma