Patient and physician delay in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer in Turkey.

Aim: The early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer are important for the prognosis of patients with lung cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate patient and doctor delays in the diagnosis and treatment of NSCLC and the factors affecting these delays.

Materials And Methods: A total of 1016 patients, including 926 (91.

Thromboembolic Events in Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.

Aim: Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) increases the risk of thromboembolic events (TEEs). In this retrospective study, we aimed to determine the rate of TEEs in MPM and investigate its relationship with the presence of thrombocytosis, the disease stage, and the tumor histopathology.

Methods: The study included 178 patients who were histopathologically diagnosed as MPM between the years January 2008 and June 2014.

Decreased metabolic uptake in tuberculous pericarditis indicating response to antituberculosis therapy on FDG PET/CT.

Early diagnosis and adequate treatment of tuberculosis are important for disease control and prevention of complication. However, diagnosing disease is frequently delayed because of difficulties of bacilli isolation or reproduction in cultures, and also, the decision of the efficiency of treatment sometimes can be impossible. FDG PET has become a promising imaging modality in the field of infection and inflammation, especially for the extension and severity of disease.

Desmoglein-3 and Napsin A double stain, a useful immunohistochemical marker for differentiation of lung squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma from other subtypes.

The treatment strategy of differentiating lung carcinomas into small-cell lung carcinoma and non-small-cell lung carcinoma has been satisfactory until recently. The introduction of novel cytotoxic agents that affect a patient's response to therapy has made further differentiation important. Non-small-cell carcinoma represents a heterogeneous group of cancers with varying histologic subtypes, hence the necessity to subgroup them.

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis with low fluorodeoxyglucose accumulation in PET/computed tomography.

Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis (PAM) is an uncommon lung disease characterized by accumulation of intraalveolar calcifications. The disease can be diagnosed based on the radiological findings. We present a 27-year-old women with five-year history of shortness of breath.

Computed tomography findings in 66 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma due to environmental exposure to asbestos.

We aimed to investigate the computed tomography (CT) findings of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) caused by environmental asbestos exposure. We retrospectively reviewed CT scans of 66 patients, which were performed before any invasive procedure was done. Pleural effusion (80.

The effect of mannose-binding protein gene polymorphisms in recurrent respiratory system infections in children and lung tuberculosis.

Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is able to bind pathogens as an opsonin and plays an important role in the innate immunity. The aim of the present study was to determine the frequencies of the MBL gene variants in the Turkish population and to examine the presence of any association between MBL variants and development of tuberculosis (TB) in adults and recurrent respiratory tract infections in children. Two structural gene mutations in exon 1 of MBL gene (codon 54 and codon 57) were studied.