Multicenter trials of treatment for empyema - After all these years

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 926-928

  Heffner, John E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; STREPTOKINASE;

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; EMPYEMA; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; NOTE; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; WOUND DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONIA; STREPTOKINASE;

EID: 14544270939     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe048352     Document Type: Editorial

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