Controversy still exists concerning the diagnosis and treatment of @entity14943 ( @entity14943 ). Although surgical removal of the affected lobe is the most commonly accepted form of treatment, detection of milder or even asymptomatic cases is usually followed by a more conservative management of @entity1 , i. e. non-surgical treatment and follow-up. We therefore decided to evaluate our @entity1 with @entity14943 , placing special emphasis on treatment and diagnostic techniques. We also evaluated quantitative analyses of alveolar diameters. Fourteen @entity1 with @entity14943 were analysed retrospectively, including age, sex, clinical picture, localisation, diagnostic and surgical modalities and histopathologic diagnosis. The alveolar diameters of affected lobes were compared with those of the lobectomised @entity1 with other @entity1576 . All @entity1 but one had severe respiratory distress as an initial symptom. All @entity1 , except newborns, had a history of @entity358 . All cases underwent thoracic CT examination as the main radiologic method. In all of the @entity1 , only one lobe was affected. We found an obvious mediastinal shift and atelectasis of adjacent lobes due to compression of the affected lobe. The affected lobe was therefore surgically removed in all of the @entity1 . In one case, we had to carry out a partial lobectomy to reduce the duration of the operation, due to an intraoperative fall of @entity26 saturation. All of the @entity1 had an uneventful clinical course postoperatively. The alveolar diameters of the cases with @entity14943 were significantly greater than those of the control @entity1 . We think that the majority of cases with @entity14943 have too severe respiratory distress to avoid surgical removal of affected lobe. Conservative management should be reserved only for @entity1 with milder symptoms or no distress at all.

XXXX : a clinicopathologic evaluation of 14 cases.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['children', 'patients'] @entity26 :: ('MESH:D010100', 'Chemical') :: ['oxygen'] @entity358 :: ('MESH:D008171', 'Disease') :: ['pulmonary infection'] @entity1576 :: ('MESH:D012131', 'Disease') :: ['non-obstructive respiratory diseases'] @entity14943 :: ('MESH:C535735', 'Disease') :: ['CLE', 'congenital lobar emphysema']
@entity14943 :: (MESH:C535735,Disease) :: ['Congenital lobar emphysema']
