Posttraumatic empyema: Risk factor analysis

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 647-651

  Aguilar, Michael M ^a   Battistella, Felix D ^a   Owings, John T ^a   Su, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LUNG CONTUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030919446     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1997.01430300089018     Document Type: Article

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