Video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of pleural empyema

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 280-284

  Solaini, L ^a   Prusciano, F ^a   Bagioni, P ^a  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLE CROCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decortication; Parapneumonic empyema; Pleural empyema; Thoracotomy; Video assisted thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UROKINASE; GLUCOSE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR LEAK; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT EMPYEMA; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TUBE; ULTRASOUND; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ATELECTASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; PANCREATITIS; PLEURA THICKENING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; THORACOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; VERY ELDERLY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 33846320497     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-006-0151-z     Document Type: Article

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