手術不成功例と膿胸例に対する外科療法の検討

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This study was made to clarify the present status of surgical treatment for failures cases after operation and for cases with empyema, and the frequency of surgical procedures applied and the result of surgical treatment in recent years were discussed.
The material consisted of 726 cases who had undergone the operation in 1967 at 30 institutions belonging to the Tuberculosis Research Committee and had been observed for the period of at least 6 months postoperatively. These cases were divided into 172 failures cases after operation (Group A), 77 cases of empyema (Group B) and the remaining 1, 437 cases (Group C)which were considered as usual cases. In this study, the successful cases, negative sputum cases, unsuccessful cases and death cases were used to evaluate the result of surgical treatment, and their definition was similar to that used in our several previous reports.