The Surgery of Pulmonary Tuberculosis

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Abstract
THE death rate from tuberculosis in the United States has fallen from about 200 per 100,000 population in 1900 to 4.3 in 1963. The disease is no longer the frightful menace that it was at the turn of the century, when it threatened the very survival of the human race. In 1966 modern methods of chemotherapy raise the possibility of sterilizing all tuberculous lesions in the lung and thus curing the disease. When viewed in this light, writing a report on "the surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis" may seem as quixotic as discussing the surgical complications of typhoid fever. And yet, . . .

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