Abstract
Bronchoscopy has played a long and important role in the study of patients with clinical bronchogenic carcinoma. It is well known, however, that some bronchial carcinomas shed malignant cells into the sputum for periods of many months before becoming detectable by bronchoscopy or chest X-ray [1]. Prior to the advent of the fiberoptic bronchoscope, differential cytology was too unreliable to allow definitive therapy in such patients until biopsy confirmation could be made.
This work was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute Contract NIH 69-2172
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Marsh, B., Frost, J., Erozan, Y. (1982). Bronchoscopic Localization of Radiologically Occult Cancer. In: Band, P.R. (eds) Early Detection and Localization of Lung Tumors in High Risk Groups. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 82. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81768-7_8
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