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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2007;32:184. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2007.03.005
Copyright © 2007, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

Letters to the Editor

Another perspective of the dysphagia due to tuberculosis

^a Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary
^b Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
^c Department of Pneumonology, Teaching County Hospital of Pécs, Hungary

Received 29 January 2007; accepted 5 March 2007.

^_* Corresponding author. Address: Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary, H-7632 Pécs, Ifjusag u 12. Tel.: +36 30 640 3362; fax: +36 72 536 496. (Email: mft@iseb.pote.hu).

Key Words: Dysphagia • Medical humanities • Tuberculosis • History

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We read with interest the article of Rathinam et al. [1].

Tuberculosis was central to the development of the specialty of thoracic surgery, [2] and it is unfortunate that complications of this disease are almost completely forgotten in the modern literature. We commend the authors for calling attention to a symptom of tuberculosis that is . . . [Full Text of this Article]