Treatment of empyema in children: From hippocrates' time to the present, and back again

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-111

  Mattei, Peter ^a   Allen, Julian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UROKINASE;

BACTERIOLOGY; CAUTERIZATION; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECORTICATION; DISEASE DURATION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG FUNCTION; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PH; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUBLISHING; RADIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE;

CHILD; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 33745738864     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 1073449X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200605-675ED     Document Type: Editorial

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