Пороки развития легких у лиц молодого возраста под маской пневмонии

Lung defects are detected according to various authors' data in 0.15-50% of all lung pathologies. As a rule the defected lungs are subjected to viral and bacterial infections resulted in pneumonia at the defected field. There are a great problem to distinguish the lung defects and tissue deformations at productive inflammation areas. Our study examined 22 recruits aged 19.4±0.2 yrs at the initial 6 to 8 months of their military service. All the patients have had lower-lobe pneumonia 1 to 3 yrs before their call-up. When clinically recovering after repeated pneumonia during the active service, the patients underwent bronchography revealed bronchiectasis and the lung hypoplasia. Thirteen patients were made lobectomy. The macroscopic examination of the resected lobes confirmed the lower lobe hypoplasia in all the surgically treated patients. The histological examination revealed multiple signs of the bronchi and respiratory tissue growth defects with intralobar sequestration. Simultaneously exudative and productive inflammation features associated with the growth defects were found.