[Anatomopathology, physiopathology and treatment of the emphysematous disease of infants (apropos of an experience with 133 surgically treated cases)].

Infantile and childhood lobar pulmonary emphysema (LPE) has finally become a rather straightforward problem after 28 years experience and the important statistics published. Contrary to adult emphysema, and leaving aside the particular aspects of causal lesions, the pediatric form is usually a unilateral lobar or infralobar disorder, and therefore lends itself to surgical treatment.