[Differential diagnosis of tuberculotic lung tumor and peripheral lung cancer]

This report discusses the two diseases differentiated characteristics in age, diseases time, clinical signs and symptoms, location and size of lesions, exercise with radiographs and fiber bronchoscopy and cytologic etc. by experience of diagnosis and treatment to 94 patients of lung tuberculosis tumor and 196 patient of peripheral lung cancer for ten years. This article summarizes that early diagnosis characteristic of lung cancer is: asymptomatic in clinic, most patients are over 40 age, less lesions as satellite on a sectional roentgenography. The lesions still gradually develop, through treatment effectively tuberculosis, and the article suggests that the lung tuberculosis tumors that they may be cancer but diagnosis is doubtful in clinic should be treatment by operation.