Pulmonary Infarcts Associated with Bronchogenic Carcinoma

Abstract

Clinically silent pulmonary infarcts may be large enough to cast a shadow on a chest radio- graph, and, unless the possibility of this type of lesion is borne in mind, serious errors in treatment may occasionally arise. We therefore present an account of 10 such cases, all associated with bron- chogenic carcinoma. Although pulmonary infarcts due to thrombo-embolism are fairly common, there is no reference in many of the standard textbooks to their occurrence in cases of bronchial carcinoma, and the literature contains few examples.