[Concurrent interventions for pulmonary tuberculosis complicated by chronic pleural tuberculosis].

Basing on the literature data analysis the authors suppose the insufficient studying of issues, concerning simultant interventions for pulmonary tuberculosis, coinciding with chronic phthysic pleurytis. Surgical treatment of such processes was performed in 181 patients, total pleurectomy--in 172 (95%) of them, partial--in 9 (5%). Various kinds of pulmonary resection as the additional intervention were performed in 172 (95%) patients, extrapleural thoracoplasty--in 15 (8.3%), diaphragmatic plasty--in 15 (8.3%). In early postoperative period the tuberculosis micobacteria have had disappeared in all the patients, permitting to interpret surgical intervention as a sanation one for every patient, and as a socially directed antiepidemic measure.