Massive Necrotizing Pneumonia With Pulmonary Gangrene

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 310-311

  Chen, Chih Hao ^a   Huang, Wen Chien ^a   Chen, Tung Ying ^a   Hung, Tzu Ti ^a   Liu, Hung Chang ^a   Chen, Chao Hung ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; BETA LACTAM; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GANGRENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG GANGRENE; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; THORACOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGRENE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57649220804     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.05.077     Document Type: Article

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