Open drainage of massive tuberculous empyema with progressive reexpansion of the lung: An old concept revisited

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 218-224

  Ali, Sohaila Mohsin ^a,b   Siddiqui, Abdul Aziz ^a   McLaughlin, Joseph S ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND DRAINAGE;

EID: 0030199992     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00298-6     Document Type: Article

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