This issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics of North America, guest edited by
Dr. John Mitchell, is devoted to Surgery for Pulmonary Mycobacterial
Disease. Dr. Mitchell has assembled expert authors to review the
following topics: Surgical treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous
mycobacterial disease; Minimally invasive approaches in the management
of mycobacterial diseases; Medical management of pulmonary
nontuberculous mycobacterial disease; Epidemiology, the WHO, and the
global fight against M. tuberculosis: A primer; History of pulmonary
mycobacterial disease; Nontuberculous mycobacteria: Epidemiology and the
impact on pulmonary and cardiac disease; Modern collapse therapy for
pulmonary tuberculosis; Surgical resection in the treatment of pulmonary
tuberculosis; Treatment of complications of pulmonary tuberculosis;
Current medical management of pulmonary tuberculosis; and more!