Postoperative residual pleural spaces: Characteristics and natural history

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-58

  Misthos, Panagiotis ^b,c   Kokotsakis, John ^a   Konstantinou, Marios ^b   Skottis, Ion ^b   Lioulias, Achilles ^a  

^a SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOBECTOMY; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PLEURA CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847770714     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500112     Document Type: Article

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