title: [Bronchoscopy in differential diagnosis of bronchial lesions in the cases of tuberculosis and oncologic processes].
abstract: The bronchoscopic investigation was performed in 15 467 patients treated for respiratory tuberculosis in the Central Military Clinical Tuberculous Hospital N 4 for the last 20 years. The bronchial tuberculosis was revealed in 1315 (8,5%) patients. Among them the tumoral process was detected in 113 (8,6%), including the central cancer--in 84 patients,and the peripheral cancer--in 29. According to initial diagnosis these patients were distributed in the following way: the infiltrative pulmonary tuberculosis was in 70 (1,9%), the exudative pleurisy-- in 14 (12,4%), the tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes-- in 8 (7,1%), the tuberculoma--in 8 (7,1%), the condition after operation for tuberculosis--in 5 (4,5%), the cavernous tuberculosis--in 3 (2,6%), the cirrhotic tuberculosis--in 3 (2,5%) and the pneumonia--in 2 (1,8%). The biological material was obtained with the use of direct biopsy, brush biopsy, guided catheter-biopsy and bronchoalveolar lavage. All bronchological findings were confirmed by cytological and histological examinations.
authors.forename: V S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Volkov
mesh_terms: D001984:Bronchial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery