Cytogenetic variants of dysregenerative and precancerous epithelial changes in chronic inflammatory pulmonary diseases

Surgical material of the lungs and their parts from 31 patients and open biopsies were studied. Proliferative activity (Ki-67, PCNA) and oncomarkers expression (bcl-2, p-53, c-myc, b-TGF, chromogranin-A) were studied immunohistochemically in the foci of various epithelial changes. It is established that a wide spectrum of alterations in pulmonary tissue is associated with variability of precursor cells and may have nosological features.