Twenty-six years of experience with the modified Eloesser flap

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 401-406

  Thourani, Vinod H ^a   Lancaster, R Todd ^a   Mansour, Kamal A ^a   Miller Jr , Joseph I ^a,b   Pairolero, Peter ^c   Baisden, Clinton E ^c   Meyers, Bryan F ^c   Mavroudis, Constantine ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EFFUSION; EMPYEMA; EMPYEMA THORACIS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT EFFUSION; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; MODIFIED ELOESSER FLAP; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; THORACOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042659395     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00470-3     Document Type: Article

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