Editorials:

Major cardiac surgery: are the benefits worth the cost?

RA Mustard
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 400-402.  

Trachea-innominate artery fistula

WG Young, Jr
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 403.  

Articles:

Actuarial analysis of surgical results: rationale and method

GL Grunkemeier and A Starr
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 404-408. [Abstract]  

The variation in hospital charges: a problem in determining cost/benefit for cardiac surgery

AT Marty, AF Matar, R Danielson, and R O'Reilly
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 409-416. [Abstract]  

Valve replacement in patients over 70 years

LN Bessone, DF Pupello, RH Blank, EE Harrison, and S Sbar
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 417-421. [Abstract]  

Successful course after supraarterial myotomy for myocardial bridging and milking effect of the left anterior descending artery

P Grondin, MG Bourassa, J Noble, R Petitclerc, and I Dydra
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 422-429. [Abstract]  

Intraoperative Doppler coronary artery finder

PV Moulder, MJ Teague, VJ Manuele, RA Brunswick, and GR Daicoff
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 430-432. [Abstract]  

Extraanatomical bypass of the aortic root: an experimental technique

JW Brown, CA Salles, and MM Kirsh
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 433-438. [Abstract]  

Trachea-innominate artery fistula: successful management of 3 consecutive patients

JD Cooper
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 439-447. [Abstract]  

Hiatus hernia and the respiratory tract

TL Lomasney
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 448-450. [Abstract]  

The clinical and physiological effect of whole-lung lavage in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: a ten-year experience

PA Selecky, K Wasserman, JR Benfield, and M Lippmann
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 451-461. [Abstract]  

Canine lung allotransplantation: donor pretreatment

M Goldberg, SC Luk, ND Greyson, and A Greenaway
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 462-473.  

False-positive cytological diagnosis of lung carcinoma in patients with pulmonary infarcts

WG Scoggins, RH Smith, WJ Frable, and WJ O'Donohue, Jr
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 474-480. [Abstract]  

Bronchobiliary and bronchopleural fistulas

DP Boyd
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 481-487. [Abstract]  

Internal mammary artery cannulation

H Laks, K Rongey, J Schweiss, and VL Willman
Ann Thorac Surg 1977 24: 488-490. [Abstract]  

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