Video-assisted thoracic surgery for pleural empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 309-313

  Wurnig, Peter N ^a   Wittmer, Victoria ^a   Pridun, Nestor S ^a   Hollaus, Peter H ^a  

^a OTTO WAGNER HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DRAIN; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; REOPERATION; SPIROMETRY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHEST TUBES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIROMETRY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 29144488991     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.065     Document Type: Article

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