Current treatment of pediatric empyema

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 196-200

  Hawkins, John A ^a   Scaife, Eric S ^a   Hillman, Neal D ^a   Feola, G Peter ^a  

^a PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Empyema; Fibrinolytics; Parapneumonic effusion; Pneumonia; VATS

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECORTICATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA; PEDIATRICS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; RECURRENT DISEASE; STANDARDIZATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 12144260159     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2004.08.004     Document Type: Review

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