Purulent pericarditis in childhood: Ten years of experience

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1404-1408

  Çakir, Ömer ^a   Gurkan, Fuat ^a   Balci, Akin Eraslan ^a   Eren, Nesimi ^a   Dikici, Bünyamin ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Purulent pericarditis

Indexed keywords

STREPTOKINASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ABSCESS; AGE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGE FACTORS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRAINAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOKINASE; SUPPURATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036788994     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.35401     Document Type: Article

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