Chronic lung sepsis: Lung abscess, bronchiectasis, and empyema

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-185

  Mansharamani, Naresh G ^a,c   Koziel, Henry ^b  

^a St Anne's Hospital   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Truesdale Med/Surgical Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CHILD; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037403603     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-200305000-00005     Document Type: Review

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