Empyema in children: Epidemiology, diagnosis, and management

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-211

  DeLuca, A ^a   Kurland, G ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031881041     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1045-1870(98)80033-2     Document Type: Article

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