Accelerated treatment of postpneumonectomy empyema: A binational long-term study

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 179-185

  Schneiter, Didier ^a   Grodzki, Tomasz ^b   Lardinois, Didier ^a   Kestenholz, Peter B ^a   Wojcik, Janusz ^b   Kubisa, Bartosz ^b   Pierog, Jaroslaw ^b   Weder, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OMENTUM; POLAND; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTPNEUMONECTOMY EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SERRATIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SWITZERLAND; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COHORT STUDIES; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL CAVITY; PNEUMONECTOMY; POLAND; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 46049117486     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.01.036     Document Type: Article

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