Intrapleural urokinase in the treatment of parapneumonic effusions;Utilidad de la urocinasa intrapleural en el tratamiento del derrame pleural paraneumónico

Anales de Pediatria

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 427-432

  Mencia Bartolome S ^a,b   Escudero Rodriguez N ^a   Tellez Gonzalez C ^a   Moralo Garcia S ^a   Bastida Sanchez E ^a   Torres Tortosa, P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Children; Empyema; Fibrinolytic treatment; Pleural effusion; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; UROKINASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOTOMY; TUBE;

EID: 20444478974     PISSN: 16954033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13074616     Document Type: Article

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