온열요법은 최근 10년간 암치료 요법의 한 방법으로 큰 관심을 끄어왔다. 그러나, 아직까지 폐종양에 대해서는 온열요법이 잘 시행되지 않고 있는 바, 이는 폐가 물리학적으로 공기를 함유한 비교적 가온하기 어려운 함기성기관이어서 이의 효과적인 가온에 대한 시도가 많지 않았기 때문으로 생각된다. 저자들은 고주파 유전형 가온에 의한 폐의 가온효과를 평가하기 위하여 가온이 비교적 용이한 충실성기관(solid organ)인 가토의 정상간과, 가토의 정상폐의 가온정도를 비교하고자 하였다. 실험 동물들은 폐 가온군과 간 가온군으로 각각 10마리씩 2개의 군으로 나누었으며, 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다.
The usefulness of hyperthermia for cancer has been established. The purpose of the present investigation was to access feasibility of heating normal lung and the temperature and power requirement were compared with that for liver as solid organ in rabbits by using radiofrequent heating machine. In this study, 20 rabbits were divided into 2 groups according to the heating site and the method of temperature measurement: in group I : lung heating and temperature measuring in skin, esophagus and lung parenchyme: in group II : liver heating and temperature measuring in skin and liver parenchyme. The results were as follows; 1) When the maximum temperature was almost same in lung heating group and liver heating group, the power for liver heating was lesser required than the power for lung heating(p<0.05). 2) The temperature of esophagus for the measurement of mediastinum temperature was 1.1±0.9℃ higher than the temperature of lung parenchyme (p<0.05). Therefore the above findings suggest lung. air containing organ. is well heated as same as liver, solid organ. So more active trials of lung heating in the lung cancer must be likely considered. But when the lung is heated, the esophageal temperature is higher than lung parenchyme, so the mediastinum damage must be considered seriously.
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