Open-window thoracostomy and thoracomyoplasty to manage chronic pleural empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 818-822

  García Yuste, Mariano ^a   Ramos, Guillermo ^a   Duque, José L ^a   Heras, Felix ^a   Castanedo, Manuel ^a   Cerezal, Luis J ^a   Matilla, José M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; EMPYEMA, TUBERCULOUS; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACOPLASTY; THORACOSTOMY;

EID: 0032033038     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01386-6     Document Type: Article

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