Pleurovenous shunting in the treatment of nonmalignant pleural effusion

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 231-233

  Artemiou, Omeros ^a   Marta, Gabriel Mihai ^a   Klepetko, Walter ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Müller, Michael Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; JUGULAR VEIN; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEPHROTIC SYNDROME; OBSERVATION; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEUROVENOUS SHUNTING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038337869     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00193-0     Document Type: Article

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