title: [The clinico-diagnostic importance of studying the ferritin content of the blood serum and sputum in pulmonary pathology].
abstract: Immunochemical and radioimmunological assays were used to measure the content of ferritin in blood, sputum and pleural fluid in patients with different pathology as well as in tissues of the pathologically altered lungs from patients who had died of chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases (CNPD) and lung carcinoma. The measurements of ferritin in blood and sputum provide additional possibilities of recognizing the process activity in CNPD and tuberculosis, in differential diagnosis between lung carcinoma and tuberculosis during comprehensive examination of patients. In the pathologically altered lungs, the greatest content of ferritin was discovered in the areas of pneumofibrosis associated with CNPD, in the stromal structures of the cancerous node.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Sukharev
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Trubnikov
authors.forename: V D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Nichoga
mesh_terms: D001782:Blood Donors; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005293:Ferritins / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D005779:Immunodiffusion; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000378:metabolism; D016066:Pleural Effusion, Malignant; D011379:Prognosis; D013183:Sputum / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005293:Ferritins
vernacular_title: Kliniko-diagnosticheskoe znachenie issledovaniia soderzhaniia ferritina v syvorotke krovi i v mokrote pri legochnoĭ patologii.