EXTRAPERIOSTEAL PARAFFIN PLOMBAGE THORACOPLASTY

Ventilatory function studies in extraperiosteal plombage.

Classical thoracoplasty, being the recognized standard procedure for permanent collapse therapy in pulmonary tuberculosis, has yet to be surpassed by any other surgical method with regard to longterm arrest of the disease and sputum conversion. However, it is a multiple-stage procedure, requiring extensive decostalization followed by permanent deformity and considerable impairment of ventilator...

Extraperiosteal plombage in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

For a physician to review a surgical operation and its results miay seem out of place, but in the treatment of a patient suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis any operative procedure is only an episode in what frequently is a long story. The physician knows, or should know, the patient's reaction both physical and immunological to the tubercle bacillus, and the patient's psychological approach ...

Plombage thoracoplasty with balls performed for tuberculosis--still working after 46 years.

Plombage thoracoplasty using different synthetic materials was a popular procedure in the management of tuberculosis (TB) in the 1940-50's, being then abandoned. We report an 81-year-old patient who underwent a plombage thoracoplasty with balls at the age of 35; at the moment of examination in our unit, the patient had no chest complaints and no complications related to the surgical procedure w...

Thoracoplasty with plombage; a review of the early results in 125 cases.

Thoracoplasty