RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Unilateral post-tuberculous lung destruction: the left bronchus syndrome.
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 210
OP 212
DO 10.1136/thx.45.3.210
VO 45
IS 3
A1 Ashour, M
A1 Pandya, L
A1 Mezraqji, A
A1 Qutashat, W
A1 Desouki, M
A1 al-Sharif, N
A1 al-Jaboori, A
A1 Marie, A
YR 1990
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/45/3/210.abstract
AB 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.