[Exfoliative cytological diagnosis of lung cancer with bronchoscopic material]

Analysis of the results of exfoliative cytological diagnosis of lung diseases from fibrobronchoscopic materials in the presence of the affected bronchial mucosa made it possible to verify lung cancer in 75.9% of cases and to give a descriptive reply due to the fact that cytological specimens were of no diagnostic value. Further examinations of transthoracic puncture specimens and clinical and X-ray findings of patients from the latter group could reveal an inflammatory process in two thirds of cases and peripheral lung cancer in a third.