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(Chest. 1947;13:631-635.)
© 1947 American College of Chest Physicians

Thoracoscopy and Pneumonolysis

J. D. MURPHY M.D., F.A.C.S., F.C.C.P.1

1 Veterans Hospital, Oteen, North Carolina.

1. In a series of 234 thoracoscopies from 1943 to 1946, ninety-six pneumonolyses were performed.

2. Thoracoscopy has proved to be a safe, simple and informative procedure, singularly devoid of serious complications.

3. Sixty-nine per cent of the pneumonolysis operations resulted in a negative sputum or made possible the continuation of a pneumothorax in a previously negative case.

4. The serious complications following the 96 pneumonolyses were: Hemorrhage, 5 per cent; Empyema, 2 per cent; Death, 2 per cent.

5. These results are in general agreement with the averages of the series of Moore and Goorwitch, but at variance with some of the individual authors of those series.






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