Abstract
The use of lung biopsy under local anesthesia for investigation of diffuse pulmonary lesions in 50 patients is presented. A specific diagnosis of the pulmonary lesion was possible in 27 of the 50 by histologic study of the biopsy tissue. The procedure was well tolerated and produced minimal complications except in one case which ended fatally. It has its greatest applicability in those diseases where a specific pathological entity is present. In general it affords a rapid accurate method for the diagnosis, determination of the medico-legal status, and determining the prognosis of diffuse pulmonary lesions. Eight cases illustrating the value of this procedure are described in detail.
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