Conservative treatment of postpneumonic thoracic empyema in children

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1002-1005

  Ozel, S Kerem ^a   Kazez, Ahmet ^a   Kilic, Mehmet ^a   Koseogullari, A ^a   Yilmaz, Erdal ^a   Aygun, A Denizmen ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Conservative treatment; Postpneumonic; Thoracic empyema

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHILD; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DECORTICATION; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA FLUID; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHEST TUBES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12144282639     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-004-2859-5     Document Type: Review

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