Abstract
AS Edens (1) says, in his classical work about heart disease, aneurysm of the pulmonary artery was mentioned by Morgagni (2), and yet most of our modern textbooks contain only brief mention of this interesting disease. The few cases described in the literature are repeatedly collected and critically judged. Studying these reports, we must confess that only very few of the reported cases are contributing much about the cause, development, and clinical picture of pulmonary aneurysm. Either the history or the clinical data are missing in many of these descriptions. First of all, it is necessary to distinguish between the aneurysm—the sac-like dilatation of a part of the pulmonary artery—and the multiple dilatations of large arteries of the lungs. These diverticulum-like dilatations do not seem to be rare, but clinically they do not lead to important symptoms. A third group, which must be separated from the others, is the diffuse dilatation of the truncus arteriae pulmonalis, seen in the x-ray film as a bulgin...
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