Definitive management of advanced empyema by two-window video-assisted surgery

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 238-239

  Drain, Andrew J ^a   Ferguson, Jonathon I ^a   Sayeed, Rana ^a   Wilkinson, Sharon ^a   Ritchie, Andy ^a  

^a PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOKINASE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG INFLATION; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347406291     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500313     Document Type: Article

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