Diseases of the Chest

Our medical research library holds 7 studies published in Diseases of the Chest (1947–1969). Each entry links to the study's record on PubMed and, where there is one, to the publisher's page and a free full text. 0 have an abstract, the authors' own summary as PubMed records it: open "Abstract" to read it. For 2 studies PubMed has no abstract for, we give the abstract printed in the article or, where there is none, a summary we wrote from it, each labeled as such.

About the journal

• Publisher: American College of Chest Physicians
• Published: 1935–1969, United States
• Language: English
• ISSN: 0096-0217 (print)
• Continued by: Chest
• Its record in the NLM Catalog

1960s

• Prevalence of "asbestos" bodies in human lungs at necropsy. T.E. Dicke, B. Naylor. 1969;56(2):122-5. PubMed · Publisher

  Abstract

  Scrapings and sections of lungs and hilar lymph nodes from 100 necropsies of residents of the state of Michigan were examined for "asbestos" bodies. Lungs from 18 cases, and hilar lymph nodes from four cases yielded positive findings. In one case in which the lung scrapings were negative, the scrapings of hilar lymph node were positive. In only four of the 19 positive cases were "asbestos" bodies seen in the sections of lung tissue. The lung scrape technique achieves maximum positive results in the detection of "asbestos" bodies when upper and lower lobes of both lungs are scraped. Upper and lower lobes of lungs can be expected to yield about the same number of "asbestos" bodies. None of the subjects had manifested pulmonary asbestosis during life. Their occupational and environmental histories were quite varied; in general, they did not point to a history of exposure to asbestos.

  PubMed has no abstract for this study. This is the authors' abstract, copied from the article.

• Pleural mesothelioma in patient with pulmonary tuberculosis: report of a case. U.J. Martinis, V.R. Radovic. 1965;47:568-70. PubMed · Publisher

  Summary

  The authors, from the People's Republic of Serbia Tuberculosis Institute in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, reported the case of a 53-year-old man with pulmonary tuberculosis in whom pleural mesothelioma was found only at autopsy. Tuberculosis was diagnosed in January 1961, and he was treated in hospital from February to November 1961. He was re-admitted with fever, cough and acid-fast bacilli in his sputum. The bacilli were resistant to standard drugs. Over the following months he developed rising leukocytosis, enlarged supraclavicular, axillary and inguinal lymph nodes, a prominent left hemithorax, bloody sputum and hemoptysis. Radiographs showed a cavernous left-sided lesion and, later, a semicircular left-sided shadow with the trachea displaced to the right. There was no pleural effusion. Repeated sputum examinations found no malignant cells. The patient refused biopsy, but aspiration of a lymph node showed malignant cells. Leukocyte counts reached 63,500 per mm³, and the bone marrow was normal. He died in extreme cachexia on the 16th day after his last admission. Postmortem examination in May 1962 showed mesothelioma of the visceral and parietal pleurae at the apex of the left lung, with massive multiple lymph node metastasis, and fibrocaseous cavitary tuberculosis in the right apex. Before death, the doctors had suspected bronchial cancer, Pancoast's tumor or leukosis. They had not considered mesothelioma because there was no pleural effusion and the patient had chronic tuberculosis. The authors concluded that the pleura should be considered as a possible origin of malignancy in the differential diagnosis of thoracic diseases. The report did not mention asbestos or the patient's occupation.

  PubMed has no abstract for this study, and the article doesn't print one. We wrote this summary from the full article with the help of AI. It is not the authors' wording.

• Roentgenogram of the month. C.L. Adams. 1965;48(4):427-8. Case report PubMed · Publisher

• Pulmonary ventilatory function in talcosis of lung. M. Kleinfeld, J. Messite, O. Kooyman, et al. 1964;46:592-8. PubMed · Publisher

• Lung disease caused by inorganic and organic dust. G.W. Schepers. 1963;44:133-40. PubMed · Publisher

1950s

• Asbestosis: report of a case. E.R. Wiese, W.E. Hall. 1956;30(2):229-30. PubMed · Publisher

1940s

• Endothelioma (mesothelioma) of the pleura; presentation of a case treated surgically. L.A. Hochberg, I.G. Epstein, M. Pernikoff. 1947;13(6):621-6. PubMed · Publisher

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