[A case of M. avium lung disease complicated with adenocarcinoma].

A 56-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for examination of an abnormal shadow found in a chest radiograph. Chest CT demonstrated a thick-walled cavity surrounded by small centrilobular nodules in the upper lobe of the left lung. Chemotherapy with rifampin, isoniazid, ethambutol and pyrazinamide was started, because acid-fast bacilli were observed in the bronchial brushing smear.

Comparison of three tracers for detecting sentinel lymph nodes in patients with clinical N0 lung cancer.

The goal of this pilot study was to compare three tracers for the detection of sentinel nodes in patients with lung cancer. Forty-eight patients with clinical N0 non-small cell lung cancer were enrolled. Indocyanine green (n=16) or isosulfan blue (n=18) was injected around the tumor intraoperatively, or technetium tin colloid was injected preoperatively under CT guidance (n=14).

[Successful outpatient treatment with chemotherapy of weekly gemcitabine and vinorelbine for a patient with recurrent lung cancer].

A 68-year-old man with recurrent lung cancer was treated with chemotherapy of weekly gemcitabine and vinorelbine on an outpatient basis. After 2 cycles of the regimen, shadows in the lung completely disappeared. During this treatment, the patient's condition was good.