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SALADRIGAS SARDUY, Sirvan  y  DURAN MATOS, Mayda. Bronchopulmonary segmentation: Anatomic norma in the adult man. AMC [online]. 2008, vol.12, n.6. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: Bronchopulmonary diseases are very common, specially infections and suppurations that frequently let permanent sequelae or cause the death of the patient. Objective: To describe the common pattern and the anatomic variants of bronchopulmonary segmentation in the adult man, when taking its number and origin into account. Method: A descriptive observational study was carried out with a sample of 100 (25%) bronchopulmonary blocks in a universe constituted by 400 dead persons to the ones a necropsy was performed in the legal-medicine department at "Amalia Simoni" Provincial Hospital, of Camagüey, from April 2004 to March 2006. Results: The great part of pieces presented the distribution of bronchopulmonary segmentation that correspond with the common pattern. Conclusions: A predominance of the variants of number in relation to the ones belonging to origin existed.

Palabras clave : Adult; autopsy; bronchi pathology; lung [pathology].

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