Elfeldt R J, Schmidt D, Thies J, Schröder D W, Seiffert P
Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kiel, Germany.
Ann Thorac Surg. 1994 Aug;58(2):565-7. doi: 10.1016/0003-4975(94)92262-4.
The case of a 4-year-old girl suffering from a severe bronchopneumonia of the left lower lobe is presented. Microscopically no cartilage was found in the resected lobe distal to the lobar bronchus. The case is unusual because a congenital lobar emphysema associated with an aplasia of bronchial cartilage has to be considered as well as secondary cartilage destruction due to chronic relapsing inflammations.
