The use of routine chest x-ray films after chest tube removal in postoperative cardiac patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2161-2164

  McCormick, James T ^a   O'Mara, Michael S ^a   Papasavas, Pavlos K ^a   Caushaj, Philip F ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY FILM;

AGED; CHEST TUBES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 0036899085     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03982-6     Document Type: Article

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