Treatment of advanced pleural empyema;Behandlung des fortgeschrittenen pleuraempyems

Chirurg

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1369-1375

  Lohe F ^a   Furst H ^a   Muller Ch ^a   Hatz, R A ^a   Schildberg, F W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Operation; Pleural empyema; Underlying disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHEST TUBES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032250362     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001040050586     Document Type: Article

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