Bilateral bronchial carcinoma.
Fibreoptic bronchoscopy was performed in 69 out of 73 consecutive patients with carcinoma of the lung, in four of whom a second synchronous bronchial carcinoma was found in the opposite lung. Three of these second tumours were radiographically occult. Another patient with a radiologically occult bronchial carcinoma in the right upper lobe bronchus had 16 years earlier undergone a left lower lobe resection because of a squamous cell carcinoma. These findings emphasize the importance of careful bronchoscopic examination of the whole bronchial tree before surgical treatment of the lung cancer.
D000368:Aged; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002283:Carcinoma, Bronchogenic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*