Surgical Treatment for Empyema Thoracis: Is Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery "Better" Than Thoracotomy?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 225-231

  Chan, Daniel T L ^a   Sihoe, Alan D L ^a   Chan, Shun ^c   Tsang, Dickson S F ^b   Fang, Ben ^a   Lee, Tak Wai ^c   Cheng, Lik Cheung ^a  

^a GRANTHAM HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 34250331281     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.03.019     Document Type: Article

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