[Operative intervention in staphylococcal destruction of the lungs in children in the 1st year of life].

Based on 135 operations in infants, performed in staphylococcic destruction of the lung, an attempt is made to determine most optimum terms of radical interventions. An analysis has shown that in children older than 6 months operative procedures after preliminary drainage therapy proved to be effective. In children of the first two months the mortality after early operations was twice lower as compared with later interventions.