Pulmonary Function after Segmental Pulmonary Resection for Bronchiectasis

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Abstract
SEGMENTAL pulmonary resection for bronchiectasis is based on the concept that it is most advantageous to conserve all healthy tissue and limit resection to the specific pulmonary segments destroyed by the disease.Bronchiectasis may affect any of the eighteen segments of the two lungs. In the majority of cases the disease does not involve the entire group of segments that constitutes a pulmonary lobe. Frequently, the disease is bilateral. It has been noted that the superior segment of both lower lobes and the two top segments of the left upper and right upper lobes are not often involved. When bronchiectasis . . .

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