Non-Tuberculous Cavitary Disease of the Lungs

Laforet, Eugene G.; Laforet, Mitsuko T.

doi:10.1378/chest.31.6.665

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“…Pulmonary infarction is a well recognized cause of cavitation 1 and accounted for about 1% of all non-tuberculous cavities in the pre-CT era. 2 Pulmonary infarction occurs in only 10% of pulmonary embolism, given the dual nature of pulmonary blood flow. 3 Aseptic liquefaction and cavitation may occur in bland infarctions larger than 4 cm in diameter.…”

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Infected Cavitating Pulmonary Infarction

Srinivas

Devaraj

2011

Respir Care

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Infected Cavitating Pulmonary Infarction

Srinivas

Devaraj

2011

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“…However, there is no evidence that direct implantation can 379 occur and, in any case, metastases from other cancers are just as prone to cavitation. Laforet and Laforet (1957) collected 145 cases of cavitating carcinoma of the lung from a large series of both primary carcinomas and secondary metastases, based on both radiological and nakedeye examination. Only 10 were secondary to tumours elsewhere in the body (Table II).…”

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Cavitary pulmonary metastases

Chaudhuri

1970

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Cavitation in pulmonary metastases is more common than might be supposed from the small number of cases (75) (Farrell, 1935;Efskind and Wexels, 1952). Minor (1950), in a series of 314 cases with lung secondaries, found only four nodular carcinomatous metastases with evidence of cavitation. LeMay and Piro (1965) observed that the primary in cases of cavitary pulmonary metastases may be in any part of the body. METHODS AND MATERIALSTwenty-five cases of cavitating pulmonary metastases were observed in a combined radiological and histological survey covering the years 1964 to 1969 at the London Chest Hospital. The lungs received from the operating theatre or the postmortem room were fixed and sliced so that the relation of the necrotic areas to the bronchi could be explored. Blocks were chosen for microscopical examination. Besides haematoxylin and eosin stain, Verhoeff-van Gieson was used to evaluate the vascular factor.

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“…The development of necrosis and cavitation in a primary bronchial carcinoma depends to a large extent on the site and histological type of the growth. Koletsky (1938), Gray et al (1951, Laforet and Laforet (1957), Bernhard et al (1962), and others indicated that the frequency of cavity formation increases with the histological grade of malignancy and the excavation is more likely to develop in large, widely infiltrating, peripheral carcinomas. In most series, including Davidson (1930), Edwards (1938), Brock (1952), Strang andSimpson (1953), Farber (1954), Hinshaw and Garland (1966), and Spencer (1968), squamous-cell carcinomas and undifferentiated carcinomas of large polygonal-cell type were found to be associated with necrosis and eventual cavitation more often than similarly situated adenocarcimomas.…”

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Primary pulmonary cavitating carcinomas

1973

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A primary lung cancer can produce a cavity in three ways. The first is 'cavitary necrosis' due to breakdown of the growth itself. The second is 'stenotic abscess' due to infection and breakdown of the lung parenchyma distal to bronchial obstruction caused by the growth. The third type is 'spill-over abscess'.In The single most important and noteworthy feature in the present series was that oat-cell carcinoma hardly ever undergoes necrosis. Out of a total of 95 cases observed, only three showed necrosis, and this was minimal and characteristically devoid of cavitation. In oat-cell carcinoma vascular invasion and tumour plugging was not observed, though all showed rapid growth and most of them blocked the lobar bronchi completely. In the light of the present study, the main factors responsible for tumour necrosis were found to be gradual bronchial obstruction and associated vascular involvement, though in many cases an inherent propensity of the tumour played a major role.A cavity or an abscess in the lung is defined as an abnormal hollow space within the lung parenchyma. Cavitation is one of the commonest phenomena in the lung. The

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Non-Tuberculous Cavitary Disease of the Lungs

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