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(Chest. 1951;20:97-101.)
© 1951 American College of Chest Physicians

Pulmonary Decortication

FRANK BORTONE M.D., F.C.C.P.1

1 Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Berthold S. Pollack Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Jersey City Medical Center.

1) Pulmonary decortication was successfully performed in the 1890's. [SEE FIGURE 4 AND 5 IN SOURCE PDF].

2) In the last few years it has practically solved the problem of the unexpanded post-pneumothorax lung.

3) In tuberculous empyema decortication is now replacing the Schede operation. Cases of chronic non tuberculous empyema are also successfully treated by this operation.

4) Persons with hemothorax resulting from chest injuries can often be prevented from sustaining marked loss of pulmonary function if decortication is done sufficiently early.






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