[Current problems in the diagnosis and surgical treatment of rare developmental defects of the lungs]

The author analyzes questions of diagnosis and surgical treatment of 168 patients with rare malformations of the lungs which made up 5.6% of the general amount of patients with surgical nonspecific diseases of the lungs and 36.1% among all defects of development of the lungs. It was established that diagnostics of rare defects of development of the lungs might be of full value but when using a complex of roentgenological, bronchiological and functional methods of examination. Surgical treatment of rare defects of the lung development is indicated to 86.1% of the patients and must be performed till the progressing of secondary alterations, when disturbances of ventilation and oxygenation are observed, there is blood flow shunt disturbances of hemodynamics of the pulmonary circus of blood circulation.