Outpatient management of malignant pleural effusion with chronic pleural catheter

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 775-776

  Díez Porres, Leyre ^a   Alonso Babarro, A ^a   Iglesias Docampo, A ^a   Diaz Agero P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX DRAINAGE;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PLEURAL EFFUSION, MALIGNANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 61549113759     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216308095020     Document Type: Letter

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