Collapse of the lung was not successful, however, if inflammation of the lung had caused
adherence of the pleural surfaces. Thoracoplasty was then recommended--that is, the …

Answer (Dr. Waring): I think the penicillin inhalation treatment of bronchiectasis is helpful. It
will not cure the irreversible damage to the bronchi, but it will reduce the quantity of the …

At the present time when there is a hope, if not promise, of a therapeutic agent which will out-
mode our past methods of treatment, I believe it is well to review the accomplishments of our …

First, pneumothorax treatment is II long procedure; it must be continued for years, and no
one can sa)'with certainty when it should be terminated. Often, following recxpansion of the …

IF to a physician of a generation ago, or less, supposing he were a sort of Rip Van Winkle,
MD, suddenly reappearing in a modern operating theatre, it were intimated by a yotong …

The goals of physical therapy in thoracic surgery are threefold: 1) prevention or correction of
loss of shoulder girdle function, 2) prevention or correction of postural abnormalities, and 3) …

Emile Holman has recently made the valuable proposal that when the lesions are so limited
to the apical portion of the lung that no more than five or six ribs need to be resected, the …

FTER pulmonary resection there is, obviously, a space in the thorax which has to be filled by
something. In the case of a segmental resection the space is small; but when lobectomy has …

In 1941 we published an article in the British Medical Journal on the treatment of pulmonary
tuberculosis by thoracoplasty, which was illustrated by a consecutive series of operations …

THORACOPLASTY is still a new operation and, although many series of cases have been
reported in the past decade we are still in the exploratory stage of chest surgery. Technic …