A RARE OPERATION
DUNG ENTIRELY REMOVED The successful removal of an entire lung from a girl of 13, and also from a youth of 18, is reported by Mr George A. Alason, senior surgical resistrar, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastlc-on-Tyne, in tho British Aledical Journal. The operation—pulmonectomy —though occasionally attempted, wais in no instance successful until 1931. . The girl had had recurrent attacks of pneumonia since* she was five, and was suffering from such an attack when admitted to the Royal Victoria Infirmary hurt year. The lung was found to bo seriously diseased, and in a series of four operations was removed. Alassage and appropriate exercises were carried out and the patient gained over a stone in w-eight. With her general health greatly improved she was discharged five months after tho operation. /The youth had swallowed a small stone when ho was five, and- coughed it up two years afterward. Since then there had been constant lung trouble. A similar scries of operations was performed, and the lung removed with tho, galvanocautery 30 days after, the first operation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12530, 16 April 1935, Page 3
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177A RARE OPERATION Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12530, 16 April 1935, Page 3
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