Azygography and Lung Cancer

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Abstract
THE preoperative determination of inoperability of carcinoma of the lung remains a difficult problem. In spite of a variety of preoperative investigations the tumors of a third of the patients surgically explored are beyond the limits for resection.1 Although the value of palliative resection is not denied many cases are too far advanced to benefit from any form of surgery. Others may be better treated with combined therapy if the extent of the disease is known before operation.2 Radiographic visualization of the azygos vein, azygography, provides another means of detecting mediastinal spread of neoplastic disease before operation.3 , 4 After several reports . . .

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