Carcinoma of the lung in women.

The 5-year survival of 293 men and of 78 women undergoing pulmonary resection and mediastinal lymph node dissection is compared. These patients were broken into two age groups: Group 1, 40 through 49 years of age, and Group 2, 50 years of age and older. They were subdivided further according to clinical stage, cell type, and sex.

Clinical presentation and management of patients with carcinoma of the lung: a 14-year experience.

Carcinoma of the lung has been steadily increasing since World War II, and the family physician can now expect to see a greater incidence of the disease in women and persons under age 50 years. The clinical manifestations of carcinoma of the lung are described, based on a 14-year experience at the University of Michigan. Diagnostic procedures are outlined.

Management of unusual traumatic ruptures of the aorta.

Blunt injuries to the ascending aorta and branches of the aortic arch are unusual but must be considered in any victim of a high speed decelerating injury. Because there are no characteristic clinical or roentgenographic findings, aortography is the only definitive method of establishing the diagnosis. Aortography should therefore, be performed upon any patient who has had a high speed decelerating injury, regardless of the clinical or the roentgenographic findings.

Major pulmonary resection for bronchogenic carcinoma in the elderly.

The results of major pulmonary resection in 58 patients greater than 70 years of age were reviewed. The histological distribution and extent of nodal metastases in this age group are the same as in younger patients. The absolute five-year survival rate for the 55 patients undergoing curative resection was 30% (17 patients).

Carcinoma of the lung: results of treatment over ten years.

Mediastinal lymph node dissection in conjunction with pulmonary resection was performed on 437 patients with bronchogenic carcinoma at the University of Michigan Medical Center from 1959 to 1969. The absolute five- and ten-year survival rates for patients undergoing curative resection were 36.2 and 14.