Unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction: the left bronchus syndrome.
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- 1 March 1990
- Vol. 45 (3) , 210-212
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thx.45.3.210
Abstract
In a prospective study of 13 patients requiring pneumonectomy for unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction the left side was found to be affected in 12. Review of a further 172 cases showed the left lung to have been destroyed in 109 (63%). It is suggested that this predominance of the left side is due to the anatomical characteristics of the left main bronchus and that disordered haemodynamics also appear to play a part.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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