Chronic bronchitis and emphysema at bronchography: survey of diagnostic features obtained by reviewing 2,000 bronchograms.

摘要: The interest in bronchopulmonary diseases is gradually turning from pneumonia and tuberculosis—today amenable to treatment—to conditions such as chronic bronchitis emphysema, which not only remain challenging therapeutic problems, obscure etiology, but also seem be increasing frequency. That these are of great importance indicated by the high mortality due “chronic bronchitis,” “pulmonary emphysema,” “cor pulmonale,” shown countries where entities included statistics. Oswald (24) cites yearly death rate bronchitis” England 30,000, a rather astonishing figure, considering that corresponding annual rates for pneumonia, cancer, tuberculosis 21,000, 16,000, 8,000, respectively. Although emphysema usually recognizable on plain chest roentgenograms, most radiologists hesitant make diagnosis films. This latter possible basis clear-cut ...