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Laszlo Lukacs

Publications and source records attributed to Laszlo Lukacs.

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PubMed2006

Tolstoy's report of five cases of chest trauma: its relevance to contemporary military surgical experience.

Fragments of the history of trauma care, an important part of our surgical heritage, can offer a relevant message to contemporary science, even at the level of statistical evaluations. A surprisingly good match of results using two distinctively different approaches for calculating survival after a chest injury is reported in a historical model. Statistical data published by French and British surgeons serving in the Crimean War (1853-1856) were found to conform with the analysis of literary observations in Leo Tolstoy's Sebastopol Sketches. The nearly complete agreement on survival probabilities from two sources so different in their nature highlights the question of the relevance of nonstatistical methods in other fields of surgery as well.

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PubMed2004

Cutting lung parenchyma using the harmonic scalpel--an animal experiment.

OBJECTIVE: Applicability of harmonic scalpel in lung surgery was investigated using an animal model. METHODS: Air tightness, control of bleeding and features of tissue regeneration were compared in a 4-week time frame of investigation in animals in which either surgical stapler or harmonic scalpel were used for pulmonary resection. RESULTS: No significant differences between the two methods were found on a clinical and histopathological basis. CONCLUSIONS: Complete lack of granuloma formation at the resection line and in its vicinity consequently restitutio ad integrum demonstrate the advantage of the harmonic scalpel over the stapler in the circumstances investigated. Overall the vibration transmission method was shown not to be inferior to the standard methods in peripheral lung tissue resection.

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