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IMMEDIATE POSTOPERATIVE BRONCHOSCOPIC STUDY OF TWENTY-ONE PATIENTS

GERSON LOWENTHAL, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1935;21(5):561-573.

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Postoperative pulmonary complications, especially of the suppurative type, have been suspected of being induced by one or the other of two principal mechanisms, aspiration into the lower respiratory passages and vascular embolism. Many excellent studies have been made in an effort to substantiate or disprove one or the other of these modes of pathogenesis. One line of investigation has concerned itself with the demonstration of two types of aspiration and their sequelae—(1) aspiration of secretions from the mouth, nose or pharynx or from all of them in anesthetized animals and in patients following operations on or adjoining the pharynx or on parts draining into the pharynx and (2) aspiration or insufflation of infective material in animals. The other line of investigation has concerned itself with the localization and sequelae of various septic emboli introduced into the venous circulation. Some of the principal proponents of the circulatory . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Otolaryngology of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science in otolaryngology.

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