The Residual Lesion in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Requiring Surgery

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Abstract
THE success of present-day intensive antimicrobial therapy has altered the indications for pulmonary resection. Currently, surgical intervention is employed more often with the expectation of preventing relapse than for the immediate control of active disease in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who were excreting drug-susceptible organisms before sputum conversion. At the thirty-eighth annual session of the American College of Physicians it was stated that "surgical intervention should be considered in all patients where there is a significant residual lesion, adequate potential life span and good pulmonary functions."1 To answer the question whether the residual lesion requires surgery, 100 sputum-negative patients with . . .