Yendamuri Sai
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA;; Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA.
J Thorac Dis. 2016 Aug;8(Suppl 8):S596-600. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.05.08.
India has the dubitable honor of being ranked first in the world with regards to lung disease burden. A good proportion of this disease burden is amenable to surgical treatment. However, patients have limited access to quality thoracic surgical care due to a number of obstacles. This review article summarizes these obstacles and the implied opportunities that exist in this nascent surgical discipline in the world's second most populous country.
在肺病负担方面,印度有幸(颇具争议地)位居世界第一。这种疾病负担中有很大一部分适合手术治疗。然而,由于诸多障碍,患者获得优质胸外科护理的机会有限。这篇综述文章总结了这些障碍以及在这个世界第二人口大国这一新兴外科学科中存在的潜在机遇。