thoracic surgery

medicine

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In history of medicine: Anesthesia and thoracic surgery
…in anesthesia, it was the thoracic (chest) surgeon. What had challenged thoracic surgery previously was the collapse of the lung, which occurred whenever the pleural cavity was opened. Since the end of the 19th century, many and ingenious methods had been devised to prevent this from happening. The best known…
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