Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients with lung diseases

^*One case was metastasized from rectal cancer and the other was from esophageal cancer; ^†Specific diagnoses were pulmonary tuberculosis (n = 7), pneumonia (n = 5), mycobacterial infection other than tuberculosis (n = 2), a solitary benign nodule (n = 2), nontuberculous granuloma (n = 2), a case each of parasitic infection, paraganglioma, hamartoma, eosinophilic infiltration and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.