[Results of surgical treatment of bronchiectasis in children]. / Rezultaty khirurgicheskogo lecheniia bronkhoéktazov u detei.

Among the causes of complications occurring in the early postoperative period in children is purulent endobronchitis which in most cases cannot be arrested in the preoperative period by the traditional methods of bronchoscopic cleansing. Endobronchial application of a helium--neon laser beam in a complex with the traditional methods in the preoperative period allows endobronchitis to be arrested and the postoperative complications to be reduced to 3% of cases.