{"title":"[Unusual metastatic shadows in the lungs and mediastinum].","authors":"B Goldner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A wide spectrum of malignomas may develop calcified or ossified pulmonary changes of different appearance, thin or thick walled air containing cavities, or calcifications in the mediastinal lymph nodes. These unusual radiographical manifestations of metastatic deposits in the lung and mediastinum may be misdiagnosed as benign lesions what is a reason for considerate evaluation of these findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"223-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Sarcoidosis with an unusual clinical course].","authors":"J Zdravković, L Rajner, D Males, D Kovacević","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sarcoidosis is a disease which in 90-100% affects the thorax and other organs in 20-50%. Although a systemic disease, its pathohistologic verification concurrently performed in different organs is most interesting. A case of a patient with sarcoidosis and pathohistologic examination of bioptic material revealing sarcoid granuloma in mediastinal glands, liver and parotid gland is reported together with clinically evident eye and central nervous system involvement.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"161-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Evaluation of the Vitalomer-1 electronic spirometer].","authors":"M Bizjak, B Stangl","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new home-made electronic spirometer (Vitalomer 1) is presented. The adequacy of measurement of lung volumes and flows with Vitalomer is assessed in two ways: by registration of volume changes after filling the device by air from the syringe of known volume and by so called \"biological testing\". By this method in the group of healthy subjects and patients with airflow obstruction the volumes and flows were simultaneously measured both by Vitalomer and standard spirometer (Vitalograph). The values, measured by both devices, were compared according to two statistical methods. Analysis has showed that Vitalomer is comparable in measurement of volumes and flows with well-known Vitalograph and that it fulfils the criteria proposed for spirometers by American Thoracic Society (ATS) and Communauté Européenne du Charbon et de l'Acier (CECA). The handling with new device is very simple as well as its cleaning. Vitalomer is therefore appropriate for diagnostic spirometry both in out-patients clinics as well as in hospital wards.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"218-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Nodular amyloidosis of the lungs associated with Sjögren's syndrome].","authors":"Z Eri, J Stanić, D Durić, I Klem","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pulmonary amyloidosis can develop together with both primary or secondary amyloidosis, isolated or associated with amyloidosis of other organs. In the study a case of a 59 year old female with multiple nodules and diffuse amyloid infiltration in pulmonary parenchyma associated with Sjörgen's syndrome is presented. Amyloid deposits were also found in the surgically removed parotid salivary gland, mostly in its blood vessel walls.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"153-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Cytology of bronchial inflammatory pseudotumor].","authors":"I Pongrac, J Karadza","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A presentation is given of a 23-year-old girl who due to cough, hemoptysis and chest pains was treated in the regional hospital as having pneumonia. A bronchoscopy was performed and it revealed the tumor which obturated the right main bronchus. Due to this, surgery was performed. The cytologic analysis of the sample, taken intraoperatively, showed that numerous fibroblasts, single or combined in groups, lymphocytes, plasma cells, mastocytes and some neutrophilic granulocytes were present as well as macrophages.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"159-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Radiographic appearance of fluid in the pleural space].","authors":"E Ajanović, B Prnjavorac, M Ajanović","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Observations of the diagnostic procedures of 397 patients treated due to the pleural effusion have been presented. Some of the methods were very differential. Pleural effusions were not only an etiological problem but sometimes the morphological identification is very difficult because of the atypical view of the radiologic appearance. X-ray examinations of the effusion in many projections enables differentiation from other cases. In cases where clinical and X-ray examinations cannot be performed different procedures like transthoracic tap and explorative thoracotomy should be performed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"228-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Use of Runac in patients with infections of the lower respiratory tract].","authors":"D Popovac, Z Plavsić, M Filipović","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thirty patients went through the outpatient treatment. Causative agent was established in sputum, throat and nose smears of 26 patients. Streptococcus pneumoniae (56%) and Haemophilus influenze (30%) are mostly isolated. Good effects of the medicine is characteristic by quick withdrawal of the symptoms characteristic for respiratory tract infections (cough and expectoration, febrility, physical finding) as well as by debacillosis after 10 days therapy. The effective result of medicine has been particularly noticed through quick reduction until complete disappearance of expectoration after three to four days since the onset of treatment. No side effects of the medicine have been found.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"188-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Determination of blood volume in pulmonary capillaries in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease].","authors":"M Jukić, F Pavicić, J Tocilj","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The subjects were divided into four groups, three of which consisted of patients with various degrees of lung obstruction, while the fourth was the control group. The patients were divided according to the spirometric values: VC, FEV1, FEV1/VC%. The diffusing capacity was determined on the basis of the single breath method and graphical separation of the diffusion components was performed. It was found that the diffusing lung capacity was slightly lower in patients with mild to severe obstructive lung disease. The capillary blood volume was also slightly lower. Correlations between the degree of obstruction of the respiratory system and the diffusing lung capacity or the lung capillary blood volume was not statistically significant (p greater than 0.5). In studying patients with obstructive lung disease we were unable to establish which of the diffusion components significantly affected the value of the total diffusing lung capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"165-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Pharmacologic characterization of alpha bungarotoxin binding sites on microcellular lung carcinoma cell lines].","authors":"N Huković","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alpha Bungarotoxin binding protein belongs to the group of nicotinic receptors regarding their pharmacologic characteristics. Presence of alpha Bungarotoxin binding sites was confirmed on six cell lines of human microcellular lung carcinomas. The binding sites are saturable, specific and show high affinity for alpha Bungarotoxin. The presence of the binding sites was found on human microcellular lung carcinoma cultured in the mice of \"Nude\" clones. Using pharmacologically active substances like succinilcholine, decamethonium, atropine and propranolol, the nicotinic characteristics of alpha Bungarotoxin binding sites were confirmed. The presence of alpha 5 subunits in the alpha Bungarotoxin binding protein of human microcellular lung cells was established by Northern blot experiments classifying alpha Bungarotoxin binding protein on microcellular cells as a neuronal nicotinic receptor regarding its structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"194-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13125278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The role of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the detection of bronchopulmonary carcinoma].","authors":"M Romcević","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The results of 578 bronchoscopy findings are presented in two periods of time differing in the method of performing the bronchologic procedure. The first period refers to the time from 1977-1979 when the rigid bronchoscope was applied while the second period was from 1980-1982 when the routine method of fiberbronchoscopy was introduced. During 1977-1979 78.6% of the bronchopulmonary carcinoma were verified, while during 1980-1982 the percentage was increased to 81.6%. The relation between verified central and periphery bronchopulmonary carcinoma performed by rigid bronchoscope was 3.5:1, while by fiberbronchoscopy this proportion significantly increased to 1.6:1. This result indicates the dominant role of fiberbronchoscopy in the detection of periphery bronchopulmonary carcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":77589,"journal":{"name":"Plucne bolesti : casopis Udruzenja pneumoftiziologa Jugoslavije = the journal of Yugoslav Association of Phthisiology and Pneumology","volume":"42 3-4","pages":"203-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13257129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}