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ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN EVALUATION OF VITAL CAPACITY MEASUREMENT OF AVERAGE NORMAL CHILDREN

MAY G. WILSON, M.D.; D. J. EDWARDS, PH.D.; I. E. LISS, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1924;27(1):49-59.

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In a previous paper on the measurement of vital capacity of children, we indicated that the low values obtained by this test in some of our apparently normal subjects was probably due to tracheobronchial adenopathy.¹ The evidence in support of this view was obtained from the roentgenologic findings, in all those instances studied by this method at the time that the work was prepared for publication. The interpretation of a relationship existing between the vital capacity of the lungs and tracheobronchial adenopathy is one of considerable importance, since it implies (1) that the measurement of the vital capacity can be used as a valuable adjunct in the diagnosis of tracheobronchial adenopathy and (2) that, in the attempt to establish a standard of vital capacity for the average normal child, the incidence of this disease would materially modify the result.

At the outset, it is essential to summarize the present conception . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Pediatrics, Cornell University Medical College and the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication, Sept. 17, 1923.

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