title: [Atelectasis without bronchial obstruction].
abstract: Five patients with acute pneumonia and transitory atelectasis without bronchial obstruction are presented. The reduced lung volume in these cases, in a case of shock lung, together with a similar phenomenon in pulmonary embolism, is tentatively related to a possible disorder of the surfactant system.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications*; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000209:etiology*
vernacular_title: L'atélectasie à bronches libres