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BULLOUS EMPHYSEMATOUS LUNGS- A CASE REPORT
Dr. Bindu Aggarwal, Reader, Department of Anatomy, National Dental College, Gulabgarh, Mohali.
Dr. Sanjay Singla. Medical Officer, Department of Cardiology, Govt. Medical College, Patiala, Punjab
Dr. Monika Garg, Associate professor, Department of Pathology, MMIMSR, Mullana, Haryana
Dr. RK Gorea, Professor Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Principal, Rama Medical College, Hospital and
Research Center, Kanpur UP
Article history
Abstract
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Fig 2. Showing Bullous left lung.
It was reported on an autopsy-based study of
131 cases in Turkish population [9] that most
patients with bullous emphysema are cigarette
smokers. The observations of Auerbach [10] and
Meshi [11] also suggest that chronic cigarette
smoking leads to pulmonary emphysema. The
males are more prone to suffer from chronic
obstructive pulmonary diseases including
emphysema than the females. [12, 13, 14]
Pneumonia, lung cancer, and gastric ulcer are
significant complications of emphysema, and
may contribute to the cause of death.[15] CT
scans can diagnose, quantitate, and locate mild
to moderate emphysema, in humans, in life,
noninvasively.[16] There has been dramatic
resurgence of interest in surgical treatment of
emphysema, particularly by lung volume
reduction procedures.[17]
Conflict of Interest
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