RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Pulmonary function in bronchial carcinoma
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 588
OP 591
DO 10.1136/thx.28.5.588
VO 28
IS 5
A1 J. S. Legge
A1 K. N. V. Palmer
YR 1973
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/28/5/588.abstract
AB Legge, J. S., and Palmer, K. N. V. (1973).Thorax, 28, 588-591. Pulmonary function in bronchial carcinoma. Pulmonary function was measured preoperatively in 330 patients with bronchial carcinoma. Obstructive bronchitis was present in 62%. Of 225 patients considered fit for thoracotomy and lung resection, 13 developed postoperative ventilatory failure and six died of this. Those who developed ventilatory failure had more marked airway obstruction, lung hyperinflation, and higher arterial carbon dioxide tensions, and also increased respiratory frequencies and physiological dead space/tidal volume ratios on exercise.