[Diagnosis of cancer of a peripheral bronchus]

Among 308 patients with peripheral cancer of the lung in 132 patients (42.9%) tumor was found during fluorographic examination. The operability in these patients was higher, the size of the tumor was somewhat less, metastases in intrathoracic lymph nodes in radical surgery occurred more rarely. However, these differences were not significant enough to regard patients with asymptomatic peripheral cancer as being in a better condition, compared with those having a symptomatic disease. It is concluded that a fluorographic survey, as it is at present time, fails to reveal early form of peripheral lung carcinoma.