[Thorotrast carcinoma of the lung--contribution to the genesis of carcinoma after application of thorotrast and of old bullet wound (author's transl)].

A bronchogenic carcinoma was found in the sphere of the scar in a fifty-years-old man who suffered in 1945, 27 years before his death, from a pulmonary bullet wound caused by war influence. The histological examination furthermore disclosed considerable autoradiographic secured deposits of thorotrast in the carcinoma and scar sphere. One may suppose that in connection with the treatment of the results of this injury a bronchography or a preparation of the fistula followed. All available cases of a beginning of carcinoma after a pulmonary bullet wound as well as all cases of carcinoma of the lungs after thorotrast incorporation found in literature were collected, critically sorted out and represented in schedules. A summary of questions of the causes and pathogenesis is given.