Kekkaku : [Tuberculosis]
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Kekkaku : [Tuberculosis] · Nov 1991
[A clinical study of pulmonary tuberculosis in lung cancer patient].
We have reviewed 442 patients with lung cancer. There were 323 male patients with a mean age of 65.8 yr and 119 female patients with a mean age of 66.0 yr. Histological types of lung cancer were squamous cell carcinoma 177 patients (40.0%), adenocarcinoma 167 (37.8%), small cell carcinoma 75 (17.0%), large cell carcinoma 17 (3.8%) and undifferentiated carcinoma 6 (1.4%). ⋯ In addition, the prevalence of active pulmonary tuberculosis was significantly higher in the patients with old tuberculous lesions (5.6%: 3 out of 54 patients) than in those without ones (0.52%: 2 out of 387 patients). Finally, all of the five patients died. The causes of death were lung cancer in three patients, both pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer in one and pulmonary tuberculosis in one.