Pathomorphology of pulmonary aspergillosis in tuberculosis patients based on according to resection material
Zemskova, Z.S.; Iampol'skaia, V.D.; Dorozhkova, I.R.; Aliazov, S.I.
Arkhiv Patologii 38(4): 37-42
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-1955 PMID: 779726 Document Number: 96371
To investigate various manifestations of broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis and to ascertain its association with a previous disease there were carried out histotopographic, histological and mycological studies of specimens of the lung tissue resected in 37 patients in connection with aspergillomas of the lungs and broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis. The investigations showed that aspergillosis was one of the forms of dysbacteriosis in the human organism and could develop against the background of post-tuberculous, tuberculous and nonspecific changes. The development of aspergillosis following post-tuberculous changes should be considered as a second nonspecific disease pathogenetically associated with tuberculosis, but with an etiological factor ot its own. There are the following forms of broncho-pulmonary aspergillosis: aspergillomas, isolated aspergillosis of the bronchi, extensive aspergillosis of the bronchi and cyst-like cavities, aspergillous pneumonia.