[Surgical treatment of patients with advanced bilateral destructive pulmonary tuberculosis]. / Khirurgicheskoe lechenie bol'nykh s zapushchennymi formami dvustoronnego destruktivnogo tuberkuleza legkikh.

The paper analyzes the outcomes of surgical treatment of 135 patients operated on at the Surgery Clinic of the Institute. A set of surgical techniques, including pulmonectomy, collapsosurgical interventions, local cavernous exposures, thoroscopic surgery, thoracic caustic under artificial pneumothorax, was applied. The used system of surgical treatment was found to be beneficial for these patients, as confirmed by fewer surgical (3.0%) and postoperative (7.8%) complications, lower postoperative mortality rates (2.2%), and steady state clinical recovery in 91% and working capacity restoration in 76%.

A prospective survey on chest malignancies following multiple fluroscopies during artificial pneumothorax therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated in 4 sanatoria in Niigata prefecture during the period from 1941 to 1961 were followed up. Of 2,756 patients, 1,193 responded and sent us effective information. However, 1,224 did not come into contact because of changed and unknown adress, 326 did not respond, and 13 were omitted because of incomplete answers. Of 1,193 effective responders, 568 had been treated by artificial pneumothorax (the pneumothorax group), and 552 had been treated by the other measures than pneumothorax (the control group). There were 65 deaths in the pneumothorax, group, and 40 deaths in the control group. No deaths from chest malignancies were reported in the pneumothorax group, while 4 chest malignancies in the control. In this survey, no evidence of increased frequency of chest malignancies including leukemia following multiple fluoroscopies during artificial pneumothorax was detected.