[Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in tropical environment (indications and technics) (author's transl)]

A study of 85 clinical records of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who were operated in hospitals of South Vietnam and West Africa. Some common features may be noted: --an ongoing clinical evolution before the indication for a surgical intervention (more than 5 years in half of the cases); -- positive bacilloscopies in 70 p. 100 of the cases; -- bilateral lesions in one case out of three; -- unilateral lesions restricted to one lobe in one case out of two; -- surgery limited to a thoracoplasty for 48 p. 100 of the patients; for the remaining 52 p. 100, half underwent lobotomy, half pneumonectomy.