Surgical management of empyema.

نویسنده

  • M A SHABAN
چکیده

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: Thoracic surgery as a specialty had its beginning in the surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and its pleural space problems. This began with using sand bags and positioning of patients with the diseased side down. Fowler (1893) and Delorme (1894) were the first physicians to describe how to free the entrapped lung and in 1886 Delorme first used the term decortication. Decortication departed from the classic approach of aspiration, open drainage and Thoracoplasty for the treatment of chronic empyema. More than 50 years from its inception decortication of the lung in the treatment of chronic empyema was finally established.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Le Journal medical libanais. The Lebanese medical journal

دوره 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1960