Abstract
As refinements in the technic of pulmonary resection have lowered mortality and morbidity rates, the medical profession and the group of patients symptomatically concerned have become increasingly interested in the possibility of relief from cough or sputum and the number of cases requiring critical evaluation has risen sharply. Bronchography, as roentgen demonstration of the bronchial pattern by opaque mediums is called, is an essential diagnostic aid in the investigation of many such patients, and the use of the procedure has become widespread during recent years. Commendable as is the enthusiastic study of patients with a cough by all measures likely to discover its cause, the general use of iodized oil injection has raised certain problems. Numerous patients have been seen in consultation in whom a diagnosis of bronchiectasis has been established elsewhere by demonstrating iodized oil filling one or more grossly dilated bronchi in one or more lower lobes. The
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