Abstract
For 13 years after the first successful pneumonectomy for carcinoma of the lung by Dr. Evarts Graham [1], pneumonectomy was considered the operation of choice. In 1950, Dr. Edward Churchill [2], at a meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, presented a series of patients who had undergone lobectomy for carcinoma of the lung. This paper provoked a rash of comments by the leaders of thoracic surgery. I should like to quote some of these to provide a background for this presentation.
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Peters, R.M. (1982). Tailoring lung surgery to preoperative lung function. In: Prakash, O. (eds) Applied Physiology in Clinical Respiratory Care. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7567-5_22
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