[Surgical treatment of pulmonary emphysema]

The paper presents the results of surgical treatment of 139 patients with different forms of pulmonary emphysema and its variations complicated with spontaneous pneumothorax or development of bullae of different sizes and patients with congenital lobar and unilateral emphysema (McLeod syndrome). The pathophysiological aspects of the disease, the indications to surgical intervention, the choice of the access for intervention and its scope have been discussed for different forms of the disease. The main functional results of the treatment are presented.