作者等分析上海市16所医院自1949年至1957年住院并经多种组织细胞学检查则确诊的肺癌病例236名。同一时期各医院至少尚有700多例病人根据临床及X线检查均确诊为肺癌,但因缺少组织细胞学的确诊资料,未列入本文内。本组236例病人中,男性183名占77.6％,女性53名占22.4％,男女之此约3.5∶1。年龄40岁以上者197例,占83.5％,最大者74岁,最小者19 The authors analyzed 236 lung cancer cases diagnosed in 16 hospitals in Shanghai from 1949 to 1957 and diagnosed by multi-tissue cytology. During the same period, there were at least 700 patients in each hospital who were diagnosed with lung cancer according to clinical and X-ray examinations. However, due to the lack of definitive diagnosis of histological cytology, they were not included in this article. Of the 236 patients in this group, 183 were males, accounting for 77.6%, and 53 were females, accounting for 22.4%. This was approximately 3.5:1 for men and women. There were 197 cases aged over 40 years old, accounting for 83.5%, the largest was 74 years old, and the youngest was 19