Complicated parapneumonic effusion and empyema: Pleural decortication and video-assisted thoracic surgery

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 236-240

  Luh, Shi Ping ^a   Hsu, Gwo Jong ^b   Chen, Cheng Ren ^b  

^a CHIA YI CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CEFALOTIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NETILMICIN; STREPTOKINASE; SULTAMICILLIN; UROKINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIBRINOLYSIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSEUDOMONAS; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 56349102711     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-008-0039-2     Document Type: Review

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