Abstract
A study of the literature dealing with the treatment of lower lobe cavitation in pulmonary tuberculosis shows that the prevailing view is pessimistic of the results attained by collapse therapy in this field. These views are well summarized by an Annotator in the British Medical Journal (I949). He, whilst admitting that cavities in the basal segments of the lower lobe may be closed by phrenic nerve interruption and pneumoperitoneum, goes so far as to state that the problem of the treatment of lesions at the apex of the lower lobe 'remains unsolved'. I t was the expression of such views that stimulated the present study.
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