RT Book, Section
A1 Cook, William A.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Colson, Yolonda L.
A2 Jaklitsch, Michael T.
A2 Krasna, Mark J.
A2 Mentzer, Steven J.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1105844322
T1 Thoracoplasty for Tuberculosis
T2 Adult Chest Surgery, 2e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-178189-3
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105844322
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  specialty  of  thoracic  surgery  was  born  in  the  convergence  of  two  worldwide  plagues.  These  were  tuberculosis,  as  old  as  humankind,  and  avian  influenza,  which  struck  a  war-wearied  world  in  the  winter  of  1917  and  killed  more  people  than  the  bubonic  plagues  of  the  Middle  Ages.  Today,  with  tuberculosis  becoming  resistant  to  antituberculous  drugs,  avian  flu  beginning  to  appear  around  the  world,  and  the  world  weakened  again  by  war  and  the  new  pestilence  of  AIDS,  it  seems  entirely  possible  that  thoracoplasty  may  become  the  once  and  future  operation.