Is aggressive surgery in pleural empyema justified?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-122

  Renner, H ^a   Gabor, S ^a   Pinter, H ^a   Maier, A ^a   Friehs, G ^a   Smolle Juettner, F M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decortication; Hospitalization time; Pleural empyema

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DUODENUM ULCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOSTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031710230     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(98)00165-1     Document Type: Article

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