Gangrene of the lung: Treatment in two stages

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 970-973

  Refaely, Yael ^a,b   Weissberg, Dov ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030668949     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00837-0     Document Type: Article

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