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Research Article

• Industrial carcinogens: the extent of the risk. (1 August, 1979)

  W K Morgan
• Is the surgical solution to the treatment of tachycardias justified. (1 August, 1979)

  J Camm, G Rees
• Organisation of the specialty of cardiothoracic surgery. (1 August, 1979)

  J L Collis
• Future of cardiothoracic surgery. (1 August, 1979)

  T A English
• Structural alterations to the pulmonary circulation in fulminant hepatic failure. (1 August, 1979)

  A Williams, P Trewby, R Williams, L Reid
• Pulmonary hypertension accompanying ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus. Management in infancy and early childhood. (1 August, 1979)

  J M Reid, E N Coleman, J G Stevenson
• Elective correction of intracardiac lesions resulting from penetrating wounds of the heart. (1 August, 1979)

  S Morgan, G Maturana, J Urzua, R Franck, J Dubernet
• Surgical treatment of bronchial obstruction in primary tuberculosis in children: report of seven cases. (1 August, 1979)

  A J Nakvi, H C Nohl-Oser
• Surgical and haemodynamic considerations in middle aortic syndrome. (1 August, 1979)

  S Gupta
• Alterations to the bronchial and bronchiolar surfaces of adult mice after exposure to high concentrations of oxygen. (1 August, 1979)

  H Obara, M Sekimoto, S Iwai
• Tantalum inhalation and airway responses. (1 August, 1979)

  P Smith, F Stitik, J Smith, R Rosenthal, H Menkes
• Imaging sites of airway obstruction and measuring functional responses to bronchodilator treatment in asthma. (1 August, 1979)

  S K Chopra, G V Taplin, D P Tashkin, E Trevor, D Elam
• Effect of ipratropium bromide on mucociliary clearance and pulmonary function in reversible airways obstruction. (1 August, 1979)

  D Pavia, J R Bateman, N F Sheahan, S W Clarke
• Tuberculin reactivity as a predictor of survival time in inoperable bronchial carcinoma. (1 August, 1979)

  N J Snell
• Bronchorrhoea--separation of mucus and serum components in sol and gel phases. (1 August, 1979)

  M T Lopez-Vidriero, I Das, L Reid
• Effect of body position on gas exchange after thoracotomy. (1 August, 1979)

  D Seaton, N L Lapp, W K Morgan
• Effect of posture on lung volume: airway closure and gas exchange in hemidiaphragmatic paralysis. (1 August, 1979)

  H W Clague, D R Hall
• A simple method for the representative sampling of lungs of diverse size. (1 August, 1979)

  C Langston, E Waszkiewicz, W M Thurlbeck
• Debanding and repair of ventricular septal defect: a new technique for older patients. (1 August, 1979)

  P Lauridsen, A Uhrenholdt, I H Rygg
• Low frequency breathing at rest and during exercise in severe chronic obstructive bronchitis. (1 August, 1979)

  R Sergysels, R Willeput, D Lenders, J P Vachaudez, W Schandevyl, A Hennebert
• Theophylline-7-acetic acid: lack of absorption and therapeutic effectiveness. (1 August, 1979)

  J A Fleetham, J A Owen, B May, P W Munt, K Nakatsu
• Parachute deformity of the tricuspid valve. (1 August, 1979)

  S Milo, J Stark, F J Macartney, R H Anderson
• Complete heart block in an adult with corrected transposition of the great arteries treated with permanent pacemaker. (1 August, 1979)

  S Amikam, J Lemer, Y Kishon, E Riss, H N Neufeld
• Surgical treatment of adenoid cystic carcinoma of the left main bronchus and trachea by left pneumonectomy, resection of 7.5 cm of trachea, and direct reanastomosis of right lung. (1 August, 1979)

  G Stalpaert, G Deneffe, R van Maele
• Probable malignant transformation of a pulmonary hamartoma. (1 August, 1979)

  J T Poulsen, M Jacobsen, D Francis
• Constrictive pericarditis resulting from the transpulmonary migration of an inhaled nail. (1 August, 1979)

  R Haas, R Lea, C Sbokos, N Conway
• Late presentation of polyvinyl alcohol sponge (Ivalon) aortic graft failure. (1 August, 1979)

  P H Bolton-Maggs, R W Motson
• Chondritis associated with fatal intramural bronchial fibrosis. (1 August, 1979)

  T Higenbottam, J Dixon
• Acute septicaemic melioidosis with pulmonary hilar prominence: a case report with a unique chest radiographic pattern. (1 August, 1979)

  D Tanphaichitra
• Solitary plasmacytoma of the carina. (1 August, 1979)

  S J Kober
• Per cent of predicted as the limit of normal in pulmonary function testing: a statistically valid approach. (1 August, 1979)

  P D Oldham