Can we predict the failure of thoracostomy tube drainage in the treatment of pediatric parapneumonic collections?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 838-841

  Jamal, Muhammad ^a   Reebye, Stacy C ^a   Zamakhshary, Mohammed ^a   Skarsgard, Erik D ^a   Blair, Geoffrey K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Division of General Pediatrics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Empyema; Parapneumonic effusions; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; T TUBE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 19444367763     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2005.01.053     Document Type: Article

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