Author: Søttrup, Tage
Title: Studies in the Pulmonary Function and the Diaphragmatic Function in Patients Convalescing from Life-Threatening Poliomyelitis..
Description: Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1960. orig. wrappers. 261 pp,, 25x17cm, University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Textual graphs & tables.. Some rubbing. Covers soiled. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "Studies on the Pulmonary Function and the Diaphragmatic Function in Patients Convalescing from Life-threatening Poliomyelitis : A Follow-up Study of 52 Surviving Patients from the Epidemic in Copenhagen and its Neighbourhood in 1952-53, Including a Normal Material (of 240 Adult Persons) Concerning the Vital Capacity and the Function of the Diaphragm". Contents: Previous Investigations; Definitions, Symbols & Abbreviations; Methods, Apparatus & Experimental Procedure; Statistics; Normal Values; Methodological Errors; A Summary of the Normal Values; Selection of Patientds for Follow-Up Examinations; Prelimnary Remarks on the Course of the Respiratory Insufficiency in the Patients Followed Up. The Follow-Up Examination; The Correlation Between the Observations Made During the Various Tests: Is There Any Causal Connection? Final Remarks; Summary; Appendices.

Keywords: Medical Dissertations, Respiratory Polio, Pulmonary Function, Diaphragmatic, Epidemic, Epidemiology, Copenhagen, Denmark, Scandinavia, Poliomyelitis