Echo-guided management of complicated parapneumonic effusion in children

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1226-1232

  Chiu, Chih Yung ^a   Wong, Kin Sun ^a   Huang, Yhu Chering ^a   Lai, Shen Hao ^a   Lin, Tzou Yien ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fibrin; Parapneumonic effusion; pH; Therapeutic strategies; Ultrasound staging; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; COMPLICATED PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; DISEASE DURATION; DRAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PH; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX SURGERY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBE; ULTRASOUND; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PLATELET COUNT; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 33845408065     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20528     Document Type: Article

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