“Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease”

Abstract

Careful antemortem appraisal and pathologic investigations on a whole-lung basis can bring about significant advances in understanding of chronic pulmonary disease. With this approach, omnibus terms such as “obstructive lung syndrome,” “asthma and emphysema,” and “chronic irreversible lung disease” can be eliminated and the etiologic and pathogenic factors in these disparate forms of disease elucidated.