[Age aspects of remote outcome of acute lung suppuration].

Among 375 patients (adults and children) having acute suppurative processes in the lung, treated conservatively, 165 were examined in later terms up to 15 years, using modern bronchological methods, considerable changes being revealed in 66.2%: residual cavities, chronic abscesses, bronchitis deformans and bronchiectases. In children suppuration in the lung showed a more grave course, but reparative processes were much better pronounced. The studies conducted allowed a conclusion on the rationality of widening indications to radical surgical treatment in adult patients and the necessity of a dispensary control over children and adult patients, including those discharged with a recovery.