lung cancers

Question 1

squamous cell carcinoma

location

Answer 1

central

Question 2

bronchogenic carcinoma subtypes

Answer 2

> squamous cell carcinoma
adenocarcinoma
small cell carcinoma
large cell carcinoma

Question 3

how are broncogenic carcinomas classified for therapeutics?

Answer 3

> small cell carcinoma (surgery is useless)

> non-small carcinoma ( surgery is helpful)

Question 4

location of adenocarcinomas

Answer 4

peripheral

Question 5

location of small cell carcinoma

Answer 5

central

Question 6

other name for small cell carcinoma

Answer 6

oat cell carcinoma

Question 7

location for large cell carcinoma

Answer 7

peripheral

Question 8

location for carcinoid carcinomas

Answer 8

major bronchi

Question 9

smoking. which carcinoma is most associated?

least?

Answer 9

most associated = squamous cell

least associated = adenocarcinoma

Question 10

carcinoma which predominately affects non-smokers?

Answer 10

adenocarcinoma

Question 11

most frequent paraneoplastic endocrine syndrome

Answer 11

ACTH with small cel carcinoma

Question 12

scar carcinoma

Answer 12

bronchial - derived adenocarcinoma

Question 13

carcinoma that mimicks pneumonia

Answer 13

bronioloalveolar carcinoma

Question 14

undifferentiated tumor

Answer 14

large cell carcinoma

Question 15

superior vena cava syndrome

Answer 15

> compression of the sup. vena cava
» facial sweling
» cyanosis
» dilation of the upper veins

Question 16

apex of the lung, often with horner’s syndrome

Answer 16

pancoast tumor

Question 17

ptosis, miosis and ____

Answer 17

ptosis, miosis and anhydrosis
Horner’s syndrome
> involvement of the sympathetic plexus

Question 18

some bacterial pneumonias and their lung complications

Answer 18

> S. pneumoniae - empyema
S. pyogenes - lung abscess
H. influenzae - meningitis and epiglottitis in infants and children