SURFACTANT SYSTEM IN LUNG-CANCER - ENDOGENOUS LIPID PNEUMONIA

The aim of the study was the evaluation of endogenous lipid pneumonia- type changes developing in the vicinity of primary tumors of the lungs . The postoperative material collected from 56 patients operated for n on-small cell lung cancer was examined. The coexistence of endogenous lipid pneumonia-type changes with squamous cell carcinoma and large ce ll carcinoma of the lung was most common. Patients with these histopat hological types of carcinoma had lower percentage of metastases to the lymph nodes. Endogenous lipid pneumonia was found to accompany most f requently the tumors 3 less than or equal to 6 cm in diameter and it w as slightly more common in the vicinity of peripheral tumors.