Benefits of early aggressive management of empyema thoracis

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 120-122

  Bilgin, Mehmet ^a   Akcali, Yigit ^a   Oguzkaya, Fahri ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decortication; Empyema; Thoracoscopy; Tube thoracostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECORTICATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644838061     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2006.03666.x     Document Type: Article

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