There are several forms of emphysema that should be considered as distinct disease
entities. No university accepted classification system of these forms exists, but correlations of …

Martelli, NA, Hutchison, DCS, and Barter, CE (1974). Thorax, 29, 81-89. Radiological
distribution of pulmonary emphysema: clinical and physiological features of patients with …

In the United States, chronic obstructive pulmo-nary disease affects approximately 10 million
people, is the fourth leading cause of death(1), and has a mortality rate of approximately …

For many years chronic bronchitis has been an obsolescent diagnosis in the United States,
comparable in many ways to the long-discarded term chronic myocarditis. Due to the deep …

Advances in the understanding of pulmonary emphysema have been hampered because
the clinician, the pathologist, and the physiologist use different criteria to establish the …

We have performed dissecting light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) on 14 lungs
with mild centrilobular emphysema, two of which also had mild panacinar emphysema. The …

Study of the macroscopic anatomy of emphysema led to a classification of the morphologic
varieties of emphysema (1). The main division was into generalized and localized forms, but …

The study of the pathogenesis of emphysema would be substantially aided if two types of
emphysema, centrilobular and panlobular, could be clearly identified as separate diseases …

Emphysema has been defined by the American Thoracic Society (1) as" an anatomic
alteration of the lung characterized by an abnormal enlargement of the air spaces distal to …

Four mechanisms are suggested to cover all types of emphysema: hypoplasia, atrophy,
overinflation and destruction. Three anatomic types are described, each with a characteristic …