Thoracic Surgery

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Abstract
THE three years that have elapsed since the last progress report on thoracic surgery appeared in this journal have been a time of consolidation of past gains rather than of breaking new ground. Certainly this has been true so far as diseases of the lung are concerned. In the cardiovascular field considerable advance has been made.An example of such an advance is the changing attitude toward aneurysm of the thoracic aorta. Three years ago symptomatic therapy of thoracic aneurysms was accepted as the useful, if not ideal, method of management. Intrasaccular wiring had been shown to relieve pain in . . .