[A comparison of the morphological indices of disorders of lymph dynamics and the functional indices of the lungs in patients with tuberculosis and bronchogenic cancer].

A comparative analysis was made with regard to histologic examination findings of the external respiration function indices in 156 patients with cancer and newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. The given analysis has demonstrated that as compared with pulmonary tuberculosis patients the external respiration function was more disturbed in subjects with a tumor process. This observation mainly concerned the persons with central cancer at the age below 50 and whose ventilation disturbances mostly had an obstructive nature caused by both endobronchial growth of the tumor and a mechanical underflow of the lymph. Lymphodynamic disturbances in the case of cancer were more evident than in tuberculosis.