Surgical treatment of bullous lung disease.
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Surgical treatment of bullous lung disease.
Clear guidelines for the selection of patients with large pulmonary bullae and severely impaired lung function for surgery remain to be defined. Twenty-one such patients operated on between 1971 and 1977 are reviewed in an attempt to shed some light on this difficult problem. Four of six patients with preoperative hypercapnia survived and were improved by surgery. There was no mortality among t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.36.12.885