The surgical treatment of stage III empyema: The effect on lung function

Minerva Chirurgica

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-27

  Grotenhuis, B A ^a   Janssen, P J H ^a   Eerenberg, J P ^a  

^a Ziekenhuis Hilversum   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Empyema; Thoracic surgery, video assisted; Thoracic surgical procedures; Thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TIME; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPIROMETRY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSCOPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 40749159609     PISSN: 00264733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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