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Cultures of blood and urine were obtained on all patients; cultures of sputum, pleural fluid, ascitic fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid were obtained as clinically indicated.
The most frequent organism isolated in the sputum was H. influenzae (n = 16).
Although MAC and CMV were isolated from the sputum and BAL of many patients, the presence of disease could not be ascertained because tissues were not available for examination.
The addition of P&PD did not increase sputum volume for the group as a whole.
These included the findings that lung cancers detected by sputum cytology only, compared to chest X-ray only, had a higher rate of complete resectability (83% vs. 62%) and a higher 5-year survival rate (80% vs. 40%) [ 33]; that approximately one-third of the cancers detected by sputum cytology were adenocarcinomas and two-thirds were squamous cell carcinomas [ 32]; that sputum cytology detected 36% of all incident cases of lung cancer (excluding interval cases) [ 32]; and that sputum cytology detected 6/40 adenocarcinomas [ 32].