Total Collapse of the Lung in Aspergillosis.

Pulmonary aspergillosis can be divided conveniently into two main types, allergic and saprophytic (Hinson, Moon, and Plummer, 1952). Obstruction of the bronchi by mycelium and eosinophilic inflammatory exudate not uncommonly leads to segmental or lobar collapse, as was again pointed out by Hinson et al. (1952), and more recently by Villar, Pimentel, and Freitas 1, Costa (1962), Golberg (1962), and Wahner, Hepper, Andersen, and Weed (1963). I have found no reference in the literature to total lung collapse, so two examples of this serious complication of the disease, which have occurred during the past three years, are described below.