[Significance of bronchial branching anomalies for recurrent and chronic nonspecific diseases of the respiratory organs in children].

About the question, whether anomalies in the branching of the bronchial tree are in causative connection with chronic nonspecific lung diseases of children, in the literature different opinions are to be read. Among about 2000 patients bronchographically examined we found 136 bronchial branching anomalies of different degrees. Seventy of them we examined about 5 years later. It is shown that isolated simple anomalies are of no consequence to the lung disease. However, branching anomalies associated with anomalies or malformations of the lung or their blood vessels have the meaning of a real disease.