Dynamic radiographic observation of 64 cases of primary bronchogenic carcinoma / 第三军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

The dynamic changes of 64 cases of primary bronchogenic carcinoma were reviewed with their serial chest films.Obstructive pneumonitis was found in 26 cases,of which 17 showed a dense and/or enlarged hilar shadow on the first chest film.Inflammation could be minimized after treatment but the hilar shadow remained dense and/or enlarged.Hilar masses could appear after total absorption of inflammation.Thus increased density and/or enlargement of the hilar shadow could be considered as an important sign of obstructive pneumonitis.Solitary pulmonary nodule(SPN)was found in 36 cases.The nodules with a diameter smaller than 2 cm on the first chest film usually showed a high incidence of vacuolization and could be taken as an early sign of lung carcinoma.The nodules with a diameter larger than 2 cm usually suggested the malignant nature of the lesion if they exhibited an increased tendency to have spicule sign.tabulation sign,or linear shadows in lung parenchyma which might be clearly or blurrily demarcated and connected the nodule with the pleura.No vacuolization was seen in those nodules larger than 3 cm in diameter.The appearance of pleural indentation showed no relation to the size of the nodule.The dynamic changes of the nodulessmaller than 2 cm in diameter were emphatically observed and they usually appeared as a small piece of thin cloudiness,a small nodule,or a reticu-lonodular shadow on the first chest film.The measures to increase the detection of the nodular lesion smaller than 2 cm in diagmeter on a chest film were discussed.In addition,a rare early feature of lung adenocarcinoma,which showed a large piece of interstitial changes,was presented.