Risk factors in surgical management of thoracic empyema in elderly patients

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 445-448

  Hsieh, Ming Ju ^a   Liu, Yun Hen ^a   Chao, Yin Kai ^a   Lu, Ming Shian ^a   Liu, Hui Ping ^a   Wu, Yi Cheng ^a   Lu, Hung I ^a   Chu, Yen ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Empyema; Old age; Risk factor; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFUSION; ELDERLY CARE; EMPYEMA; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NECROTIZING PNEUMONITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECTUM CANCER; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THORACOTOMY; THORAX EMPYEMA;

ADULT; AGED; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 44649118788     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2008.04532.x     Document Type: Article

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