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(Chest. 1937;3:16-19.)
© 1937 American College of Chest Physicians

The Collapse Program in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

C. A. THOMAS M.D., F.A.C.S.1 and S. C DAVIS M.D., F.A.C.P.1

1 Tucson, Arizona

1. Pulmonary tuberculosis is a surgical disease and is best treated by early collapse measures.

2. Early diagnosis and early collapse will reduce the morbidity and mortality to a minimum.

3. Collapse measures should be used individually, collectively, and successively without loss of patient's time which means waste of opportunity.

4. The best results in collapse therapy are obtained through the co-operation of both internist and surgeon, in other words group practice.

5. Thoracoplasty has undergone many and rapid changes during the last five years, which has reduced the mortality on a par with other major surgical procedures, and effects cures in 85 per cent of the cases operated.






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