Azzopardi JG, Freeman E, Poole G. Endocrine and metabolic disordes in bronchial carcinoma.
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1970;
4:528-30. [PMID:
5483322 PMCID:
PMC1820058 DOI:
10.1136/bmj.4.5734.528]
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Abstract
In an unselected series of 185 patients with histologically confirmed bronchial carcinoma 16 had endocrine disturbances attributable to the tumour (excluding pulmonary osteoarthropathy). Of these, 11 patients had hypercalcaemia; three inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone; one Cushing's disease; three hypertrophic osteoarthropathy; and one gynaecomastia. Cushing's disease and inappropriate antidiuresis are specifically associated with oat-cell tumours, and hypercalcaemia occurs most frequently with squamous carcinoma. A negative correlation exists between gynaecomastia and osteoarthropathy on the one hand and oat-cell carcinoma on the other.
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