Computed tomography or ultrasonically guided pigtail catheter drainage in multiloculated pleural empyema: A recommended procedure?

Respirology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-124

  Maier, Alfred ^a,b,c   Dome, Wolfgang ^a,b,c   Anegg, Udo ^a,b,c   Woltsche, Michael ^a,b,c   Fell, Birgit ^a,b,c   Pinter, Hans ^a,b,c   Smolle Jüttner, Freyja M ^a,b,c  

^a Department of Surgery   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c Hospital of Hörgas Enzenbach   (Austria)

Author keywords

Empyema thoracis; Image guided drainage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECORTICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; THORAX DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CATHETERIZATION; DECISION TREES; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0033946392     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1843.2000.00237.x     Document Type: Article

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