Necrotizing pneumonia complicated by early and late pneumatoceles

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 129-132

  Al Saleh, Suhail ^a   Grasemann, Hartmut ^a   Cox, Peter ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Community acquired pneumonia; Complicated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; SURFACTANT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; HEART RATE; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTUBATION; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOBECTOMY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG RESECTION; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PH; PNEUMATOCELE; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 45849107612     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/136708     Document Type: Article

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