Radicality and prognosis of surgical treatment of thoracal carcinoid tumors: a review of 152 operated cases.

Background: Experience of thoracal (bronchial and thymic) carcinoid tumors is discussed to add some remarkable diagnostic and therapeutic details for their treatment, based on a retrospective clinico-pathological analysis of 152 consecutive patients operated on at the Thoracic Surgery unit in Budapest between 1974 and 1988.

Methods: Prior to surgery 70 patients were symptom free, obstructive symptoms dominated in 65 patients, and hemoptysis occurred in 23 cases. In 68 patients a peripheral coin lesion was visible in radiographs and in 81 cases the tumor could be seen by bronchoscopy.

[Natural killer cell activity in multiple sclerosis patients].

The physical factors are important in the regulation of immunological functions. The primary immunological process maintaining a neuroimmunological disease is influenced by the physical state. In this paper the natural killer activity was demonstrated at 50 patients with definite multiple sclerosis.

[Massive haemothorax caused by intralobar pulmonary sequestration].

The authors present the case of a young male with massive haemothorax caused by intralobar bronchopulmonary sequestration. Angiography is necessary for the exact diagnosis of bronchopulmonary sequestration. The most common site of intrapulmonary type sequestration is the left lower lobe of the lung.

[Surgical treatment of pulmonary metastases from colorectal tumors].

Authors analysed 25 colorectal cancer lung metastases. Among them were 13 male 12 female. Ages ranged from 45 to 70 years.