Bacteriology of Pneumonia in Patients with Lung Cancer and Its Clinical Significance
- VernacularTitle:肺癌患者伴肺炎的病原学与临床研究
- Author:
Hua AI
;
Jie TANG
;
Yunjiao ZHANG
;
Ce SHEN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Lung neoplasms;
Bacterial spectrum;
Pneumonia
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
1994;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To study the bacteriology of pneumonia and its clinical significance in patients with lung cancer.METHODS The bacteriology and clinical features of patients with lung cancer accompanied with lung infections between 2002 and 2005 in our hospital were analyzed.RESULTS Pneumonia took place in 53.7% of 328 patients with lung cancer,the most of them were elderly people and the chemotherapy receivers,and the rates of pneumonia associated with small cell lung carcinoma(63%) and squamous cell carcinoma(59.7%) were significantly higher than those with adenocarcinoma(44.0%) and alveolar cell carcinoma(40.6%)(P
