Video-thoracoscopic and open surgical management of thoracic empyema

Surgical Infections

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 511-517

  Potaris, Konstantinos ^a   Mihos, Petros ^a   Gakidis, Ioannis ^a   Chatziantoniou, Christos ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROORGANISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EMPYEMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36148981832     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.049     Document Type: Article

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