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(Chest. 1956;30:513-522.)
© 1956 American College of Chest Physicians

The Paulino Thoracoplasty

WILLIAM J. McCLAREN M.B., Ch.B.1

1 Tranquille Sanatorium, Division of Tuberculosis Control, Department of Health & Welfare of British Columbia, Canada.

1. Experience of suture constriction of the lung with partial thoracoplasty (Paulino Procedure) in 35 cases is described.

2. This one stage operation gives permanent, selective, concentric collapse with minimal costal resection, and without the introduction of foreign (plombage) material.

3. The operation is safe with few post-operative complications and causes little function loss.

4. It is applicable to cases of far advanced and bilateral tuberculosis.

5. Six months after the last operation, 31 patients are well and sputum negative on culture, three have positive sputum (two of these require resection); one has died.






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