Definition and classification

  • What are the malignant conditions of lung? H172
  • What are the types of bronchial carcinoma? A
  • What are the histological types of bronchial carcinoma? A, hl
  • What is Pancoast’s tumor and Pancoast’s syndrome? a

Epidemiology

  • Q

Etiology and Pathophysiology

  • What are the causes or risk factors of bronchial carcinoma? A, hl
  • What are the primary sites of secondaries in the lung? hl

Clinical manifestations

  • What are the presentations of bronchial carcinoma? A, h173
  • Why chest pain in bronchial carcinoma? A
  • What are nonmetastatic extrapulmonary manifestations of bronchial carcinoma? Hl

Examinations

  • Have you examined the eyes of the patient? What did you look for? a

Investigations

  • What investigations do you suggest in bronchial carcinoma? A, hl
  • Why bronchoscopy should be done? A
  • If sputum shows malignant cells, would you do bronchoscopy and biopsy? a

Diagnosis

  • What are your differential diagnoses? a
  • Why bronchial carcinoma? A
  • Why pulmonary TB is not your primary diagnosis? A, hl
  • Why not this is collapse? A
  • Why not consolidation? A
  • Why is this not bronchiectasis? Hl

Treatment

  • What are the modalities of treatment? hl
  • How to treat bronchial carcinoma? A
  • How will you stage bronchial carcinoma? hl
  • What is the role of staging? A
  • What is the role of surgery in lung carcinoma? A
  • What are the contraindications of surgery? A
  • Which tumor is more amenable to surgery? Hl
  • Why small-cell carcinoma usually not amenable to surgery? Hl
  • What are the indications of radiotherapy? A
  • What is the role of chemotherapy? A
  • Which tumor is more sensitive to chemotherapy? hl
  • What is the prognosis? a

Complications

  • What are the distant organs metastasized from bronchial carcinoma? Hl
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