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A recently observed case of bronchial fibroleiomyoma is described from the early radiological findings to fiberbronchoscopic observation and histological typing and on to post-operative anatomopathological confirmation.
After a brief description of the bronchofibroscopic technique used, a survey of the results obtained in 1200 diagnostic and therapeutic bronchofibroscopies is made. The importance of this method in the diagnosis of bronchogenic carcinoma, even in its first stage, is underlined.
A selective bronchographic and endoscopic comparison is made of some of the most significant pictures of chronic bronchitis, particularly as regards Ist and IInd order bronchi. Morphology is discussed and a number of problems in differential diagnosis are reviewed.
A comparison is made between the bronchofibroscopic and bronchographic pictures observed in aged volunteers with healthy lungs and bronchi. The main finding was of simple atrophy of varying type and degree (more or less marked, diffuse or local), mainly affecting the large bronchi. Age and the extent and magnitude of the alterations were not related: marked atrophy was noted in presenile and slight atrophy in greatly aged subjects. Both types of atrophy may be treated as physiological, since they are presumably connected with differences in the incidence of various factors (diasthetic, constitutional, dysmetabolic, hormonal) and variously numerous microtrauma. The same picture was given by both types of examination, despite the wide differences between their methods.
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