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(Chest. 1956;30:277-288.)
© 1956 American College of Chest Physicians

Resection in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

RESULTS AND FOLLOW-UP OF 700 CASES

J. J. HIRDES M.D., F.C.C.P. and C. I. STEGERHOEK M.D.1

1 Sanatorium "Berg en Bosch."

Seven hundred patients were operated upon by resection between October 1949 and February 1954. By February 1, 1955, 23 had died (mortality 3.3 per cent). A total of nine tuberculous and four non-specific empyemas were observed. The total number of relapses in a follow-up of two to five years amounted to 7 per cent. On February 1, 1955, 92 per cent of the patients were in good condition and well.






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