Diagnostic and therapeutic performance of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in investigation and management of pleural exudates

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 597-600

  Medford, Andrew R L ^a,b   Awan, Y M ^a   Marchbank, A ^a   Rahamim, J ^a   Unsworth White, J ^a   Pearson, P J K ^a  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audit; Empyema; Malignancy; Pleural exudate; VATS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FEVER; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED;

EID: 55049085937     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588408X318246     Document Type: Article

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