[Thoracic radiography after combined resections of the bronchi and pulmonary artery with autoplastic vascular sealing. (experimental investigations)].

Changes of the X-ray picture after combined resection of the bronchus and the pulmonary artery in the animal experiment are involved by reason of topographic-anatomical alterations of the intra-thoracic conditions caused by the resection of two lobes of the lung (bilobectomy). Mediastinal hernias and distortions are most common among the alterations. In the animal experiments the circular resection of the bronchus with end-to-end anastomosis does not lead to any stenosis in the area of the anastomosis, neither are found bronchitis deformans and bronchiectasis. After plastic sealing of the arterial defect with a venous Autograft, a good function of the artery can be revealed by angiography. Deformities and stenosis cannot be found in the area of the Autograft if the postoperative course was uncomplicated.