title: Destroyed lung. A report of cases in West Indians and Australian Aborigines.
abstract: A series of patients with total destruction of one lung by bronchiectasis and a normal contralateral lung is reported. Eight cases were West Indians of Negro race and four were Australian Aborigines. The bronchiectasis appears to be of post-infective type and is related to the poor social conditions under which the affected people live. It has also been noted in other developing countries or in under-privileged races in developed countries.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D001987:Bronchiectasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D011859:Radiography; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000150:complications; D014900:West Indies / Q000208:ethnology; D000095283:Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples