Surgical results for chronic empyema using omental pedicled flap: Long-term follow-up study

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1857-1861

  Okumura, Yoshitomo ^a   Takeda, Shin Ichi ^a   Asada, Hiroki ^a   Inoue, Masayoshi ^a   Sawabata, Noriyoshi ^a   Shiono, Hiroyuki ^a   Maeda, Hajime ^a  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ASPERGILLUS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG DEAD SPACE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MUSCLE FLAP; OMENTOPLASTY; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX DRAINAGE; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 20444430475     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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