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(Chest. 1952;22:193-195.)
© 1952 American College of Chest Physicians

Pleuro-Pneumonectomy in the Treatment of Tuberculous Empyema

JOS DAEMS M.D. and ROBERT PANNIER M.D.1

1 The Department of Lung Diseases, Hospital St. Jean, Bruges, Belgium.

A comparative study of the results obtained with surgical collapse therapy and with pleuro-pneumonectomy in the treatment of infected tuberculous empyemata with or without bronchopleural fistula, shows that the latter method must now be advocated as the most adequate treatment for these tuberculous conditions.






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