eComment: The role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the management of tuberculous empyemas

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 337-338

  Barbetakis, Nikolaos ^a   Paliouras, Dimitrios ^a   Asteriou, Christos ^a   Tsilikas, Christodoulos ^a  

^a Theagenio Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOUS EMPYEMA; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; HEMOPTYSIS; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SUTURE; THORAX SURGERY;

EMPYEMA, TUBERCULOUS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MUSCLES; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61849168493     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2008.191619A     Document Type: Conference Paper

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