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Research Article

• Physician among surgeons: thoughts on preoperative assessment. (1 December, 1980)

  C Ogilvie
• The gold rush 1925-35. (1 December, 1980)

  R Y Keers
• Spontaneous intramural rupture and intramural haematoma of the oesophagus. (1 December, 1980)

  W F Kerr
• Spontaneous dissection of the oesophagus. (1 December, 1980)

  G N Morritt, P R Walbaum
• Management of massive haemoptysis with the rigid bronchoscope and cold saline lavage. (1 December, 1980)

  A A Conlan, S S Hurwitz
• Recurrent major haemoptysis: progression to pneumonectomy. (1 December, 1980)

  W A Baumgartner, J B Mark
• Pulmonary function after prolonged mechanical ventilation with high concentrations of oxygen. (1 December, 1980)

  C E Gillbe, J C Salt, M A Branthwaite
• Echocardiographic method for the estimation of pulmonary artery pressure in chronic lung disease. (1 December, 1980)

  M J Boyd, I P Williams, C W Turton, N Brooks, G Leech, F J Millard
• Preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen levels correlated with postoperative pathological staging in bronchial carcinoma. (1 December, 1980)

  J F Paone, A Kardana, G T Rogers, J Dhasmana, K Jeyasingham
• Inhaling habits among smokers of different types of cigarette. (1 December, 1980)

  N J Wald, M Idle, J Boreham, A Bailey
• Sequential brush biopsy and conventional biopsy: direct comparison of diagnostic sensitivity in lung malignancy. (1 December, 1980)

  J R Lyall, G D Summers, I M O'Brien, N T Batemen, C P Pike, M V Braimbridge
• Lung folding simulating peripheral pulmonary neoplasm (Blesovsky's syndrome). (1 December, 1980)

  C R Payne, P Jaques, I H Kerr
• Short-term adverse effects of antibiotic prophylaxis for open-heart surgery. (1 December, 1980)

  R Freeman
• Observations on the rare association between portal and pulmonary hypertension. (1 December, 1980)

  G Kibria, P Smith, D Heath, S Sagar
• Experience with the surgical treatment of coarctation of the aorta in India. (1 December, 1980)

  W J Perianayagam, S Muralidharan, P S Jairaj, S Krishnaswamy, I P Sukumar, G Cherian, R Mansfield, S John
• Radiotherapy for massive haemoptysis from an aspergilloma. (1 December, 1980)

  J M Shneerson, P A Emerson, R H Phillips
• Lymphangioma of the middle mediastinum as an incidental finding on a chest radiograph. (1 December, 1980)

  Y F Feng, J B Masterson, R H Riddell
• Pulmonary eosinophilia caused by penicillamine. (1 December, 1980)

  D Davies, J K Jones
• Cardiac tamponade in acute pancreatitis. (1 December, 1980)

  R Withrington, P Collins