Middle-Lobe Syndrome

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Abstract
A TELECTASIS with chronic pneumonitis involving the right middle lobe has received considerable attention since this phenomenon was classified as a clinicopathological entity called "middle-lobe syndrome" by Graham, Burford and Mayer1 in 1948. These investigators presented a group of 12 cases of presumably nontuberculous atelectasis and chronic pneumonitis involving the right middle lobe, each secondary to compression of the middle-lobe bronchus by enlarged lymph nodes. The authors pointed out that any inflammatory process leading to lobar hilar lymphadenopathy may result in bronchostenosis, with consequent atelectasis and pneumonitis. More than a decade before, Brock et al.2 (1937) had stressed the possibility . . .
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