Radiological findings in wet-lung disease.

Abstract The authors give details of 2 cases in a review of 20 newborn infants with clinical and radiographic findings of delayed resorption of normal lung fluid, i.e., wet-lung disease. Characteristic radiographic findings are observed when serial films are obtained. The disease occurs most often in infants delivered by cesarean section, in prematures, and in infants of diabetic mothers. A new finding of hypoproteinemia was consistent in this series.