Fluid Drainage and Air Evacuation Characteristics of Blake and Conventional Drains Used After Pulmonary Resection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1539-1545

  Sakakura, Noriaki ^a,b   Fukui, Takayuki ^a   Mori, Shoichi ^a   Hatooka, Shunzo ^a   Yokoi, Kohei ^b   Mitsudomi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SUCTION; THORAX PRESSURE; TUBE;

CHEST TUBES; DRAINAGE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION;

EID: 64649085199     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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