The indications for these surgical procedures were: recurrent hemoptysis (24 cases), massive hemoptysis (4 cases), multi drug resistant TB (4 cases), bronchiectasis and recurrent infection (2 cases), and right bronchial stenosis (1 case). In two of the patients the indication for surgery was intra-bronchial carcinoid tumour. Lymph node biopsies obtained during the surgery showed pathological changes of TB. The most important complications observed were severe bleeding occurring after right pneumonectomy, empyema at the site of left superior lobectomy, and stenosis at the distal part of trachea in a patient who had right bronchial stenosis and destruction of superior lobe for which sleeve lobectomy was performed
