Lung carcinoma associated with bullous lung disease in young men.
Over a 6 year period, three cases of pulmonary carcinoma in young men with severe bullous lung disease were seen at Washington University Medical Center. The patients did not have a long cigarette-smoking exposure. It would seem that patients with severe bullous lung disease are at a higher risk for the development of pulmonary neoplasm than the general population. Physicians should be aware of this association to expedite diagnosis and therapy.
D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications