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The first successful resection of a lung carcinoma was performed by the American surgeon E. A. Graham in St. Louis in 1933 [351]. His patient, a 48-year-old physician, was able to resume his medical practice and lived until 1964 without experiencing a recurrence. Graham resected the involved lung, implanted radium seeds in the bronchial stump for suspected hilar node metastases, and also performed a thoracoplasty, removing seven ribs. With the former measure he apparently provoked the stump insufficiency that ensued, and with the latter he prevented its potentially fatal consequences.
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Hasse, J. (1986). Operative Treatment. In: Surgical Treatment of Bronchial Carcinoma. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70977-7_5
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