Thoracic Surgical Management
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Surgical management of penetrating thoracic trauma.
probably have occurred since man first raised a weapon against another of his kind. Three such cases were described in the Smith Papyrus written between 2500 and 3000 B.C.,1 and Homer recorded in the Iliad results of various wounds of the chest inflicted during the siege of Troy.2 As early as about 1267, Theodoric at least suspected certain basic principles of pulmonary physiology and wrote con...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Surgery
سال: 1954
ISSN: 0003-4932
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-195411000-00021