Empyema management: Twelve years' experience since the introduction of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques - Part A

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 338-341

  Bailey, Karen A ^a   Bass, Juan ^a   Rubin, Steven ^a   Barrowman, Nick ^b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Chalmers Research Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEWBORN; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 21244468326     PISSN: 10926429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/lap.2005.15.338     Document Type: Article

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