[Clinico-morphological parallels in inflammatory bronchial diseases in people living in radionuclide-contaminated areas].

Overall forty-five children with asthmatic bronchitis (AB) and recurring bronchitis (RB) residing in those territories being affected by radioactive contamination were examined with the aid of pathohistological and histochemical techniques elaborated at the F. G. Ianovskiĭ Institute of Phthisiology and Pulmonology (Ukraine) to study biopsy specimens of the epithelial covering of the gums and bronchial mucosa. AB and RB clinical patterns showed manifest dependence on the degree of the bronchial mucosa tissues reaction to ionizing radiation.