The Occurrence of Infection after Pulmonary Resection

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
AN ANALYSIS has been made of 427 cases of pneumonectomy and lobectomy during the years 1942 through 1947 at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the results of the use of chemotherapeutic and antibiotic agents have been tabulated, with particular regard to complications caused by infection and to mortality. With few exceptions these complications occurred and were recognized during the postoperative hospitalization period; in several cases late recrudescence or fulmination of symptoms required readmission and further treatment. The latter cases have been included in the present study because the complications were considered to be the direct result of operation and its . . .