Showing papers by "American College of Chest Physicians published in 1956"

TL;DR: The clinical diagnosis of disseminated lupus erythematosus is based on the clinical history of intermittent bouts of prolonged fever, arthralgia associated with toxicity, the presence of L.E. cells in the peripheral blood or bone marrow, and leukopenia with an elevation in the sedimentation rate.

TL;DR: The purpose of this communication is to discuss those cardiac operations which can be performed by the general thoracic surgeon in the well equipped non-university general hospital and to present certain principles which must govern such surgery.