[Bronchiolo-alveolar cancer and its surgical treatment (a practical view)]

The authors have followed up 243 patients with bronchioalveolar cancer of the lung from 1979 to 1995 years. The age of the patients varied from 39-83 years. The ratio men women was as 1.1:1.9, which distinctly differ from the indices of morbidity from lung cancer of the whole, 4 forms of bronchioalveolar cancer, according to conventional methods, were singled out. 198 patients died after operation. Favourable long term results were obtained only in nodular forms of bronchioloalveolar cancer. The main diagnostic methods were roentgenological examination tramstriracic puncture and repeated studies of the phlegm.