Pneumonectomy: historical perspective and prospective insight

Open Access

1 April 2003

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery

Vol. 23 (4) , 439-445
https://doi.org/10.1016/s1010-7940(03)00117-9

Abstract

I would like to thank you for the honour of electing me as your President. My purpose will be today to share with you some considerations about an operation that has crossed the 20th century by typifying the greatness and servitude of thoracic surgery, while keeping many of its mysteries at the beginning of the 21st, I mean pneumonectomy.

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