VATS debridement versus thoracotomy in the treatment of loculated postpneumonia empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1626-1630

  Mackinlay, Tomás A Angelillo ^a   Lyons, Gustavo A ^a   Chimondeguy, Domingo J ^a   Barboza Piedras, Miguel A ^a   Angaramo, Gustavo ^a   Emery, Juan ^a  

^a HOSPITAL BRITÁNICO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE;

EID: 0029927043     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00194-4     Document Type: Article

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