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Research Article

• Sputum elasticity: a frog in the throat? (1 October, 1978)

  C Marriott, S S Davis
• The thorax in history. 5. Discovery of the pulmonary transit. (1 October, 1978)

  R K French
• Cholesterol in the lungs of heavy cigarette smokers. (1 October, 1978)

  B Corrin, S S Soliman
• The anti-reflux mechanism after cardiomyotomy. (1 October, 1978)

  R Lobello, D A Edwards, J W Gummer, M Stekelman
• Lower oesophageal sphincter tone in patients with peptic stricture. (1 October, 1978)

  R Lobello, M Stekelman, D A Edwards
• The electron microscopy of "fibrinoid necrosis" in pulmonary arteries. (1 October, 1978)

  D Heath, P Smith
• Multicentric tracheobronchial and oesophageal granular cell myoblastoma. (1 October, 1978)

  D J O'Connell, H MacMahon, T R De Meester
• Pulmonary manifestations of hypogammaglobulinaemia. (1 October, 1978)

  R J Dukes, E C Rosenow, P E Hermans
• Valve replacement for rheumatic aortic incompetence in adolescents. (1 October, 1978)

  E K Weir, R E Matisonn, A S Mitha, B T LeRoux, N M Rogers, E Chesler
• Aortic valve replacement in rheumatoid aortic incompetence. (1 October, 1978)

  A B Devlin, P Goldstraw, P K Caves
• Destructive aortic valve endocarditis from Brucella abortus: survival with emergency aortic valve replacement. (1 October, 1978)

  J C Cleveland, R Suchor, J Dague
• Single primitive ventricle with normally related great arteries and atresia of the left A-V valve. (1 October, 1978)

  E O Coto, J M Raggio, P Malo, C Sainz, R Aparisi, J M Gomez-Ullate
• 0pen-heart palliative surgery for pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and hypoplastic pulmonary arteries. (1 October, 1978)

  G Crupi, G Locatelli, M Villani, R Tiraboschi, L Parenzan
• Pulmonary haemodynamics and function immediately after canine left lower lobe preservation. (1 October, 1978)

  J A Bardin, P M Taft, N A Halasz
• Reversibility of airways obstruction in bronchiectasis. (1 October, 1978)

  S G Nogrady, W V Evans, B H Davies
• Storage of heart valve allografts in glycerol with subsequent antibiotic sterilisation. (1 October, 1978)

  R Parker, R Randev, W H Wain, D N Ross
• Correction of tye C atrioventricular canal associated with tetralogy of Fallot. (1 October, 1978)

  P Bastos, M De Leval, F Macartney, J Stark
• Aneurysm of the main stem of the left coronary artery associated with aortic insufficiency and aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Report of a case with successful surgical repair. (1 October, 1978)

  A Leguerrier, M Bercot, A Piwnica
• Long-term follow-up of two cases of pulmonary varicosity. (1 October, 1978)

  T Shirakusa
• Invasion of a bronchial carcinoma by Aspergillus Fumigatus. (1 October, 1978)

  R D Monie
• Recurrent symptomatic pulmonary embolism caused by an infected Pudenz cerebrospinal fluid shunt device. (1 October, 1978)

  R T Gibney, F Donovan, M X Fitzgerald
• Asthma relieved by aspirin and by other cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors. (1 October, 1978)

  A Szczeklik, R J Gryglewski, E Nizankowska
• Proceedings of the Thoracic Society. A meeting held in Oxford on 6--7 July 1978. Summaries of papers. (1 October, 1978)