Comprehensive illustrated guide to the much neglected area of parenchymal respiratory disease in children. It includes congenital disorders, disease in neonates, malignant disease, as well as neuromuscular and interstitial diseases. There is also a section on rarer disorders that are commonly misdiagnosed: scleroderma, granulatomas and other rheumatoid disorders, mucopolsaccharidoses, sickle-cell disease and rare neoplasms. Includes hard to diganose conditions, such as interstitial lung disease. References rare diseases of childhood.