[The role of developmental disorders of the respiratory, digestive and vascular systems in pathology of the lungs in children].

: The results of diagnosis and treatment of bronchopulmonary pathology in 680 children were analysed. It was found that besides developmental anomalies of the lungs and trachea, those of the esophagus, mediastinal organs, diaphragm, and the aorta and its vessels play an important role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary diseases in infants and young children. Traditional and special methods of examination must be used in the diagnosis of these developmental anomalies. Timely correction of the developmental anomalies makes it possible to arrest the bronchopulmonary complications which are associated with them.