Chest tube management after pulmonary resection

Chest Surgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 507-527

  Cerfolio, Robert James ^a,b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEALANT;

BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECORTICATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; TUBE; VOICE;

CHEST TUBES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUCTION;

EID: 0036703010     PISSN: 10523359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1052-3359(02)00015-7     Document Type: Review

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