Sources of pathogens causing pleuropulmonary infections after lung cancer resection

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-27

  Sok, M ^a   Dragas A Z ^b   Erzen J ^a   Jerman, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Infection; Lung resection; Microbiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPUTUM;

EID: 0036302143     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(02)00244-0     Document Type: Article

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