[Middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis: clinical case and review of the literature].

Over the past few years bronchiectasis, among the chronic lung diseases, has been the second most important after tuberculosis in terms of frequency and mortality. Although the incidence of the disease has been decreasing in recent years, the illness is currently of great surgical interest because of an upsurge of cases among people considered to be below the bread line. The authors present the clinical case and surgical treatment of a young adult with middle lobe bronchiectasis, with a 10-year primary IgG deficiency and severe bronchopneumonia requiring hospitalisation.