Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Quit smoking
- Anatomy
- Hemoptysis
- coughing up of blood or
blood-stained mucus from
the bronchi, larynx, trachea, or lungs
- Causes
- Bronchitis
- Cancer
- Pmeumonia
- Lung abcess
- Cardiovascular
- Mitral stenosis
- CHF
- Trauma
- Mediastinial shift
- deviation of the mediastinal
structures towards one
side of the chest cavity
- Causes
- Tumor
- Atelactesis
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Lung cancer
- malignant lung tumor characterized by
uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung
usually in the cells lining air passages
- Types
- Small cell
carcinoma
(15%)
- Non-small cell
carcinoma
(85%)
- Adenocarcinoma
(40%)
- Large cell
carcinoma (10%)
- Squamous cell carcinoma (30%)
- Signs and symptoms
- Cough (75%)
- Weight loss (40%)
- Chest pain (40%)
- Dyspnea (20%)
- Risk factors
- Smoking
- Radon
- Asbestos
- Air pollution
- Pathogenesis
- TSG inactivation
- Oncogen activation
- Telomerase activation
- apoptosis evasion
- Complications
- Metastasis
- development of secondary malignant
growths at a distance from a primary
site of cancer.
- Arrhythmia
- Horner's syndrome
- SVC Syndrome
- Paraneplastic syndrome
- Investigations
- Blood count
- Chest imaging
- Sputum cytology
- Interventional Bronchoscopy
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Neoadjuvent
- Adjuvent