Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for fibrinopurulent pleural empyema in 67 patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-323

  Striffeler, Heinz ^a   Gugger, Matthias ^a   Im Hof, Vinzenz ^a   Cerny, Andreas ^a   Furrer, Markus ^a   Ris, Hans Beat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DECORTICATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; ENDOSCOPY; FIBRIN; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO RECORDING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0032006319     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01188-0     Document Type: Article

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