Population
Patients subjected to operation in the authors' clinic during the past year
Design
Cohort
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Challenges aspiration as main cause of postoperative pulmonary lesions; leaves open need for prospective trials before changing practice.
The study argues that postoperative pulmonary complications are primarily embolic in origin, challenging the contemporary view that they are chiefly caused by aspiration.
Elliott C. Cutler (1922) studied this question.
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