[Some blood indices and the leukocytic index of intoxication in tuberculosis, pneumonias, abscesses, and cancer of the lung].

Examining the values of hemoglobin, red and white blood cells, differential count, and leukocytic index of intoxication (LII) in patients with tuberculosis, abscesses, pneumonias, and cancer of the lung indicated that in accordance with clinical and X-ray findings, LII and the count of lymphocytes reflected the degree of patients' health status to the greatest extent. These blood values were of the greatest prognostic value. In lung cancer, LII increased only when inflammatory and purulent complications occurred. Erythrocyte sedimentation rates had a greater tendency to increase in nonspecific processes, which may be occasionally of differential diagnostic value.