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RESECTION OF PULMONARY TISSUE IN TUBERCULOSIS 1
Author(s) -
ROBB DOUGLAS
Publication year - 1946
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1946.tb06563.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonectomy , tuberculosis , pulmonary tuberculosis , surgery , abdomen , resection , lung , general surgery , pathology
Summary and Conclusions Three cases of pneumonectomy and two of lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis are described. There was no operative mortality. Three of the patients died of tuberculosis elsewhere in lung or abdomen, three weeks, four months and twelve months after operation. One i s doing well five months later, and one is apparently cured thirteen months later. All were unfavourable cases. The general position of resection in tuberculosis is discussed, and technical points, chiefly In the matter of bronchial closure, are mentioned.