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By John Alexander, M.A., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Surgery of the University of Michigan; Surgeon-in-Charge of the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Hospital. With contributions by the following: Max Pinner, M.D., F.A.C.P., Herman M. Briggs Memorial Hospital, Ithaca, N. Y.; Principal Diagnostic Pathologist, District Tuberculosis Hospitals, New York State Department of Health; John Blair Barnwell, M.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan; Physician-in-Charge of the Tuberculosis Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Hospital; Kirby Smith Howlett Jr., M.S., M.D., Resident, Laurel Heights State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Shelton, Conn. Price, $15. Pp. 705, with 367 illustrations. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1937.

Arch Intern Med. 1939;63(5):1014.

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Strictly, the title of this book is a misnomer. The author, together with the contributors, not only has considered those procedures which involve collapse of the lung but has completely covered the field of surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. The operative procedures are considered in the following order: paralysis of the phrenic nerve, scaleniectomy and scaleniotomy, pneumothorax, intrapleural pneumonolysis, oleothorax, paralysis of intercostal nerves, extrapleural pneumonolysis, subperiosteal and subcostal pneumonolysis, thoracoplasty, surgical drainage of the pulmonary cavity and surgical treatment of tuberculous empyema and tuberculosis of the thoracic wall. Each of the procedures is considered in detail. The indications and contraindications, the surgical technic, the preoperative and the postoperative care and the complications are discussed carefully and at length. When multiple operations are necessary the order and time of their performance are carefully set out.

Excellent photographs and drawings are used liberally, and equally good roentgen reproductions are most helpful. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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