Causes and management of postpneumonectomy empyemas: Our experience

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 498-502

  Kacprzak, Grzegorz ^a,b   Marciniak, Marek ^a   Addae Boateng, Emanuel ^a   Kolodziej, Jerzy ^a   Pawelczyk, Konrad ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b 53 333 Worclaw P ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Drainage; Postpneumonectomy empyema; Therapeutic management; Thoracocentesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; REOPERATION;

EID: 4143093671     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.05.015     Document Type: Article

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