[Cytopathology of bronchial tree secretions in bronchial asthma patients].

The methods of clinical cytology were used for examination of 64 patients with bronchial asthma (42 men and 22 women). Six patients were found to have an atopic form of asthma, 58--the infectiousallergic form. The material for a cytological examination was obtained by bronchoscopy. Early in the exacerbation stage and in patients with a relatively short duration of the disease the cytopathological pictures of the bronchial secretion are characterized by a relatively insignificant pathology of the cell composition. In cases of a long-term disease, great changes in the morphology of the cells and the pattern of the cytograms are observed up to the appearance of cell forms with marked signs of atypicity.