In spite of the fact that pulmonary emphysema has been recognized for one hundred and fifty years or more, it has only been in the last fifteen years that extensive efforts have been made by anatomists, pathologists, physiologists, biochemists and clinicians to correlate its various aspects. Unfortunately these efforts have not been completely successful in clarifying the aetiology and pathogenesis of the disease and in fact until recently there was no universally accepted definition of emphysema. The definition that will be used in this study is the one proposed at the Ciba Guest Symposium (1959): “Emphysema is a condition of the lung characterized “by increase beyond the normal in the size of air spaces “distal to the terminal bronchiole either from dilatation or from destruction of their walls”.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115488 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Fournier, G. Gisele. |
| Contributors | Becklake, M. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Health Sciences.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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