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(Chest. 1949;16:197-213.)
© 1949 American College of Chest Physicians

Surgical Therapy of Pulmonary Tuberculosis at a Veterans Administration Chest Center

RALPH FRIEDLANDER M.D.1 and WILLIAM M. CHARDACK M.D.1

1 The Surgical Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Castle Point, New York.

The surgical therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis at a Veterans Administration chest center (Castle Point), has been described with a discussion of indications and results of various procedures. Stress has been placed on recent additions to the field including:

1) Indications for open pneumonolysis.

2) Surgical intervention for the establishment of a pneumothorax space in cases in whom attempt at pneumothorax was unsuccessful.

3) Revision of thoracoplasty with intrapleural pneumonolysis.

4) Thoracoplasty performed from below upwards.

5) Combined pneumonectomy and pleurectomy.






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