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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005;130:1732
© 2005 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary tuberculosis

C.S. Pramesh, MS, FRCS, Rajesh C. Mistry, MS, Sandeep P. Tandon, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery and General Medicine, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India

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To the Editor:

We read with interest Olgac and colleagues' remarkable experience 1 Go with the surgical management of pulmonary tuberculosis and empyemas. The role of surgical intervention in tuberculosis has decreased dramatically with the advent of powerful antituberculous drugs. Our experience with the disease has been similar to that of the authors.Very few of the chronically collapsed lungs expand, even after drainage . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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