Excisional surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in children
| Autor: | Morris Zelman, Milton Levitin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1950 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Bronchiectasis Tuberculosis business.industry medicine.medical_treatment General surgery Disease medicine.disease Surgery Pneumonectomy medicine.anatomical_structure Pulmonary tuberculosis Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Medicine Humans Stage (cooking) business Surgical treatment Child Tuberculosis Pulmonary |
| Zdroj: | American journal of diseases of children (1911). 79(1) |
| ISSN: | 0096-8994 |
| Popis: | PNEUMONECTOMY, or resection of the diseased lung, in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in adults is now an accepted procedure, although indications for its employment remain controversial. While pneumonectomies have been performed in children, mainly for bronchiectasis, we were unable to find, in a review of the literature, cases of pulmonary tuberculosis treated in this manner. There are, however, brief references to lobectomies in the treatment of this disease in persons in the growing age period, with apparent success. 1 As the disease in children usually does not progress to the stage that makes this form of therapy necessary, reports can be presented on only 4 patients in whom pneumonectomy was performed since November 1946 for pulmonary tuberculosis. The children ranged in age from 3 to 13 years at the time of operation. The operation in children presents problems not encountered in adults. Obliteration of the residual "dead space" created |
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