In 1948, the patient had pulmonary tuberculosis and underwent extrapleural pneumonolysis (plombage) with polymethyl methacrylate (acrylic or Lucite) balls. The symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis ...
Celebrate World TB Day by exploring Koch’s critical discovery and its impact on tuberculosis treatment methods over the years. Today is World TB Day, commemorating Dr. Robert Koch’s groundbreaking ...
The patient had undergone an ipsilateral thoracoplasty and Lucite-ball plombage for treatment of tuberculosis 50 years earlier. We proceeded with surgical evacuation of the empyema cavity. During the ...
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