[The place of scintigraphy in the lung cancer diagnosis].

The incidence of lung cancer has had a significant increase during the last years, belonging today, along with the cardiovascular disease and accidents, to the top three places in mortality. The current article presents the importance of the pulmonary perfusion scintigraphy during the algorithm of the bronchopulmonary cancer's diagnosis, clinical staging and resection, in correlation with other imagistic (Rx, CT, NMR) and non-imagistic methods (bronchoscopy, functional respiratory tests). Based on the cases of the Nuclear Medicine Dept.