ABSTRACT
The incidence of primary liver carcinoma in the last twelve years was investigated retrospectively in the county Vas. A continuously increasing tumor frequency was found, by the end of the period the value had doubled. The phenomenon attained nearly exclusively the male population while no change could be seen in females. For further clarification comparative investigations into the association between chronic HBV infection and chronic alcohol abuse as well and hepatic carcinoma were performed. Changes in these factors cannot fully explain the gross increase in hepatic tumor incidence, the effect of other risk factors has to be suspected.
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Liver Neoplasms/mortality , Aged , Autopsy , Female , Humans , Hungary/epidemiology , Liver Neoplasms/pathology , MaleABSTRACT
The authors report on the cases of five patients who suffered from primary pulmonary lymphoproliferative disease. Of 4 pseudolymphoma cases 3 were free of symptoms and complaints. One patient was operated on 14 years earlier and suffered also from associated Sjögren's syndrome. In this case the monoclonal immune globulin containing cell groups found earlier in the lymph node referred to the possibility of chronic dysproteinemia and to the transformation into malignant lymphoma of the hepato-splenomegaly. The contralateral pulmonary recurrence following the lung resection of a patient with malignant lymphoma was successfully treated with telecobalt irradiation. In connection with the literature and their cases the authors discuss the problems of differential diagnostics, therapy and prognosis as well.
