Spectrum of Bronchogenic Carcinoma

Abstract

Introduction:The incidence of lung carcinoma has rapidly increased since the beginning of there 20th century and currently represents the main of cancer related mortality. Diagnostics methods may adequately explain frequent recognition of the presence of neoplasm, but also a fact that histological findings have yielded a considerably higher percentage. More recently the emergence of combined PET CT imaging has greatly aided the investigation of lung carcinoma by allowing even better delineation of areas with increased tracer uptake and by improving staging and detection of metastatic disease, guiding therapy and allowing clinical outcome to be predicted. Study aimed to find the prevalence and associated symptoms of lung carcinoma. Material and methods:The study included a 109 patients and was a retrospective study. The method was to note the presenting symptoms of bronchogenic carcinoma and to note the site of metastasis of bronchogenic carcinoma with PET CT. To note the variant of bronchogenic carcinoma with histologically proven.Results: There were a total of 109 patients of which 77 were male and 32 were female. The presenting symptom of bronchogenic carcinoma was cough 75% preceded by weight loss 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 and stridor 2%.Out of the 109 patients the frequent presentation of bronchogenic variant is adenocarcinoma 56%, followed by squamous cell carcinoma 34% and small cell carcinoma 15%. Conclusion:The frequent symptom of bronchogenic carcinoma presentation was cough followed by weight loss and dyspnea. The frequent site of metastatic of bronchogenic carcinoma is supraclavicular node followed by contralateral lung, bone metastasis. majority of bronchogenic carcinoma presentation were of adenocarcinoma followed by squamous cell carcinoma and small cell carcinoma