. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Fig. 5. of the lung whose integrity it constantlythreatens. Such an abscess cavity is nolonger capable of spontaneous or later, the overflow from thiscavity will infect neighboring or distant. Fig. 6. healthy lung tissue and the disease willtake on renewed activity. An even more unfavorable condition forspontaneous or operative cure exists in a 164 Lung Abscess and Bronchiectasis case of the type shown in Fig. 6. Here notonly has a cavity persisted but there isan induration and consoHdation of therigh


. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . Fig. 5. of the lung whose integrity it constantlythreatens. Such an abscess cavity is nolonger capable of spontaneous or later, the overflow from thiscavity will infect neighboring or distant. Fig. 6. healthy lung tissue and the disease willtake on renewed activity. An even more unfavorable condition forspontaneous or operative cure exists in a 164 Lung Abscess and Bronchiectasis case of the type shown in Fig. 6. Here notonly has a cavity persisted but there isan induration and consoHdation of theright upper lobe about it. The result ofthis is a progressive round cell infiltration,fibrosis; the terminal bronchioles are stran-gled and secondary bronchiectatic cavitiesdevelop. Usually these secondary cavitiesare much smaller and are not visible onthe plate. In fact, in the great majorityof the cases only one fairly large cavity


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