CYSTIC CAVITIES  SEEN IN 16 CASES OF LUNG DISEASE

Yoo, Hwae Sung; Oh, Sang Bail

doi:1964.0.17.101

Tuberc Respir Dis > Issue 17; 1964 > Article

Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases 1964;17:101-103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1964.17.1.101 Published online December 1, 1964.

CYSTIC CAVITIES SEEN IN 16 CASES OF LUNG DISEASE

Hwae Sung Yoo, Sang Bail Oh

Department of Chest Medicine, National Medical, Center

Abstract

1. Of 16 cases of cyst-like cavities on the X-Ray of the chest, the surgically resected material showed by histopathological examination: bronchi-ectasis in 13 cases, bronchial cyst in 3 cases, including 1 cases of lung sequestration. 2. Bronchiectasis usually involved whole lobes of one lung and had multiple cavities in about 1/2 of the cases. One case bronchial cysts. affected an entire lung with multiple cysts. In the two other cases 1 or 2 cysts were located in lower lobe. The sequestration was one single cyst in the posterior basal segment of right lower lobe. 3. Pathological tissue reaction surrounding the cavities and shrinkage of lung preferably occurred in bronchiectasis. 3. The past history often suggests the etiology as most cases of bronchiectasis have had previous bronchopulmonary disease, whereas this not the case in bronchial cysts. 5. Most cases of multiple cystic bronchiectases with surrounding infiltration and shrinkage had recurrent episodes of coughing, sputum and often fever as well. This was not the case in the bronchial cysts.