Anatomical evolution of 'bronchitis' of the childhood bronchiectasis, correlations with the therapeutic resection.

Abstract

SummaryThe late results of pulmonary resection for patients affected of ‘bronchiectatic disease’ (whose symptoms had started in early childhood) seem to be better when the resection takes place at a higher age.It appears that the bronchial susceptibility to bacterial or viral infections decreases with higher age (18–20 years).The bronchiectatic disease of infancy — in respect of its anatomical lesions — is an evolutive disease ending with a cicatricial stage of the inflammatory active disorders.The study of eighty resectional specimens show a parallelism between the cicatricial stage of the lesion present and the age of the patient operated upon.