[Specific and nonspecific bronchial and regional lymph nodal lesions as a manifestation of synergism in the lymph epithelial system in pulmonary tuberculosis].

The lung and lymph nodes were examined in 130 patients aged 19-70 years, who had been operated on at the Department of Surgery, Saint Petersburg Research Institute of Phthisiology, for pulmonary tuberculosis. The immunopathological changes have close correlations in the bronchi and pulmonary respiratory parenchyma. This gives grounds to regard the lung and lymph nodes jointly as the organ of local immunity (sui generis) and to suggest that there is a synergism of immune reactions.

[Active bronchial tuberculosis in respiratory tuberculosis].

A total of 1212 patients aged 1.5 to 70 years were examined in 1998 to 2001. Children under 6 years of age underwent bronchoscopy (BS) using a rigid bronchoscope under anesthesia; the remaining had fibrobrochoscopy by sampling with conventional methods.