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(Chest. 1946;12:431-435.)
© 1946 American College of Chest Physicians

Results of Thoracoplasty

(933 Cases, 1,868 Operations)

RICHARD DAVISON M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium.

The results of thoracoplasty are amazingly good when one takes into consideration the advanced stage of tuberculosis with which we are almost always dealing. Few surgical procedures are so dramatically successful in actually saving lives in large groups of cases. We may soon have a preparation, most promising at present being streptomycin, which will render thoracoplasty less frequently indicated. However, I believe that we have accomplished considerable with these weapons and that we should carry on without pause, until a proven replacement comes forth.

Figures of life and death are cold. A study of how these people are able to cope with the problems of the world should prove most interesting.






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