RT Journal
A1 BEHREND M, BEHREND A
T1 TOtal pneumonectomy
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 1939
FD April 1
VO 38
IS 4
SP 698
OP 713
DO 10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200100101005
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1939.01200100101005
AB It is our purpose in this paper to report 2 cases in which total pneumonectomy was performed and to call attention to factors which may make for better results in the performance of an often difficult operation.REPORT OF CASES 
    Case 1. 
    —D. C., a white man aged 42, a manual laborer and plumber, was admitted to the service of Dr. S. A. Lowenberg on May 4, 1936. The chief complaint was sharp pains in the lower part of the chest, on the left side. The patient had been well until two and one-half months before his admission to the hospital, when the pains referred to were noted. These were accompanied by cough, especially in the morning, productive of small amounts of foul-smelling and foultasting blood-tinged sputum. In the past eight weeks he had lost 24 pounds (10.9 Kg.). Night sweats had been present for three weeks. Dyspnea and palpitation