Tuberc Respir Dis.  1990 Jun;37(2):190-194. 10.4046/trd.1990.37.2.190.

A Clinical Study on Lesions in the Lingular Segment of the Left Upper Lobe

• KMID: 2528499
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4046/trd.1990.37.2.190

Abstract

A clinical study was carried out on 29 patients who revealed pathological findings in lingluar segment of the left upper lobe on radiologic examination of the chest. Among 29 cases, 20 cases were female patients, and the most common cause was tuberculosis (1 7 cases), and the remainders were bronchiectasis (6 cases), lung cancer (4 cases), and pneumonia (2 cases) On fiberoptic bronchoscopic examination, all cases except one showed obstruction or narrowing of the bronchial lumen, which due inflammations. extraluminal compressions. or masses The lesions in the lingular segment was different from right middle lobe syndrome. which strongly suggested that not impairment of collateral ventilation in a main pathological change of middle lobe syndrome but another mechanism and underlying causes.