title: [New aspects of studying the morphofunctional insufficiency of bronchial epithelium in chronic bronchitis].
abstract: The paper is concerned with some data on the state of the epithelium in chronic bronchitis from a view-point of its quantitative assessment with plotting models of the epithelium--morphograms reflecting its morphofunctional insufficiency. A total of 137 patients with chronic bronchitis were investigated. Morphofunctional epithelial insufficiency was shown to be an obligatory symptom of chronic bronchitis. Biopsy of the central, lobar bronchi was sufficient for the detection of morphological (quantitative) signs of chronic bronchitis. Results of morphometric investigations can be applied to differential diagnosis of chronic nonobstructive and obstructive bronchitis as well as chronic bronchitis and other types of pulmonary pathology. Morphometry of biopsy specimens is an indispensable and adequate method of therapeutic control.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Gomoliako
mesh_terms: D001284:Atrophy; D001980:Bronchi / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D001991:Bronchitis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004848:Epithelium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008679:Metaplasia; D009093:Mucus / Q000378:metabolism*
vernacular_title: Novye aspekty izucheniia morfofunktsional'noĭ nedostatochnosti épiteliia bronkhov pri khronicheskom bronkhite.