Outcome analysis of cirrhotic patients undergoing chest tube placement

Chest

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 142-148

  Liu, Lawrence U ^a   Haddadin, Hassan A ^a   Bodian, Carol A ^a   Sigal, Samuel H ^a   Korman, Jessica D ^a   Bodenheimer Jr , Henry C ^a   Schiano, Thomas D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Cirrhosis; Hepatic hydrothorax; Outcome; Pleural effusion; Thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE;

EID: 3242661010     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.126.1.142     Document Type: Article

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