A CASE OF TRAUMATIC PNEUMOTHORAX AND PLEURAL EFFUSION SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY RESECTION

F. S. Rhodes
1911 BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)  
The chronic course of the disease and the very gradual deterioration of health from the long-continued pain and discharge were also points which were against the probability of malignant disease. Upon the other hand, the uselessness of any mere scraping operation was so evident and the danger of ultimate malignant degeneration so real that I had no hesita-
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