Thoracoscopic management of postpneumonectomy empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 273-276

  Gossot, Dominique ^a   Stern, Jean Baptiste ^a   Galetta, Domenico ^a   Debrosse, Denis ^a   Girard, Philippe ^a   Caliandro, Raffaele ^a   Harper, Luke ^a   Grunenwald, Dominique ^a  

^a INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; CANDIDIASIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUCTION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042623429     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.02.023     Document Type: Article

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