Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with talc pleurodesis in the management of symptomatic hepatic hydrothorax

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3172-3175

  Ferrante, Dino ^a   Arguedas, Miguel R ^a   Cerfolio, Robert J ^a   Collins, Barry G ^a   Van Leeuwen, Dirk J ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FISTULA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PLEURODESIS; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TALC; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036894992     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)05543-0     Document Type: Article

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