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(Chest. 1961;39:111-116.)
© 1961 American College of Chest Physicians

Air Space Studies with Special Reference to Emphysematous Air Spaces

OREN A. BEATTY M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Hospital Director, State Tuberculosis Hospital, District Two, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Louisville.

1. Forty-seven cases of emphysematous air spaces have been studied by introducing contrast media, taking pressures and doing intrapulmonary auscultation.

2. These studies have demonstrated blebs, bullae, alveolar spaces, basal emphysemamore spaces, congenital cystic areas and solitary cysts. Blebs and bullae appear to be more frequent in apical portion and the larger emphysematous air spaces in basal portion of the lungs.






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