The involvement of the respiratory apparatus in leukemias

In 13 cases of leukemia, different clinical forms showed pleuropulmonary and mediastinal lesions consisting in: mediastinal-hilar adenopathies without the parenchyma involvement (2 cases), with involvement of the pulmonary parenchyma (6 cases) and only one case of pulmonary lesions without adenopathies. In 3 cases leukemia overlapped pulmonary TB, TB sequela (2 cases) or active-evolutive TB (1 case). One case developed to bronchopulmonary neoplasm. While the treatment of parenchymatous complications, appeared by nonspecific infections, and of the single case of active tuberculosis proved adequate, the ganglionic-mediastinal lesions continued their acute or chronic unfavourable evolution.