Lecture20: Lung/Pleura Tumors

Question 1

What Is a Pulmonary Hamartoma?

Answer 1

The commonest benign lesion

Question 2

What do Pulmonary Hamartoma’s look like on chest imaging?

Answer 2

Coin lesion

Question 3

What is the most important cause of cancer-related deaths in industrialized countries?

Answer 3

Carcinoma

Question 4

What is the leading cause of cancer death in women?

Answer 4

Carcinoma

Question 5

Which 2 cancers have the strongest association with smoking?

Answer 5

Small cell and squamous cell carcinoma

Question 6

What is the most common cancer type in women smokers?

Answer 6

Adenocarcinoma

Question 7

What are SCLCs?

Answer 7

Small cell lung cancer

Question 8

What is the correct treatment for SCLCs?

Answer 8

Systemic chemotherapy

Question 9

What are NSCLCs?

Answer 9

Non-small cell lung cancers

Question 10

What is the way to treat NSCLCs?

Answer 10

Surgical resection

Question 11

What is the name of the Carcinoma progenitor cells?

Answer 11

P53-KRAS

Question 12

What are squamous cell carcinoma’s more common in? Genders

Answer 12

Men

Question 13

Where do squamous cell carcinoma’s arise?

Answer 13

Centrally in major bronchi

Question 14

What is the Vena Cava syndrome?

Answer 14

When lung cancers extend into the vena cava

Question 15

What is a pleural effusion called when it’s a transudate?

Answer 15

A hydrothorax

Question 16

Name a cause of Bilateral Hydrothorax?

Answer 16

Congestive heart failure

Question 17

What is Pleuritis?

Answer 17

When the effusion is an exudate

Question 18

What is a Pneumothorax?

Answer 18

When there’s a presence of air or gas in the pleural cavity