[Surgical collapse in the treatment of single lung tuberculosis]. / Kollapsokhirurgicheskie operatsii v lechenii destruktivnogo tuberkuleza edinstvennogo legkogo.

OBJECTIVE: To improve the treatment of destructive tuberculosis of a single lung by using of collapse surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The authors analyzed an experience of collapse surgery for destructive tuberculosis of a single lung. RESULTS: Collapse surgery was effective in 77.5% of patients. CONCLUSION: Endoscopic surgical collapse improves the outcomes in patients with destructive tuberculosis of a single lung and expands the possibilities for surgery in these patients when resection is not applicable.