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Ann Thorac Surg 1997;64:225
© 1997 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Articles: General Thoracic

Historical Comment

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	Introduction

 
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After Tuffier's introduction of extrapleural pneumolysis in 1891, many substances were tried in the space created, as plombage, to maintain local collapse of the underlying lung. A partial list includes fat (Tuffier 1910), air (Mayer 1913), oil (Graf 1913), paraffin (Baer 1913), rubber bag (Gwerder 1924), muscle (Alexander 1932), fiberglass (O'Neal 1946), and polyethelene (Cleland 1942). Of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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