Choice of First Intervention is Related to Outcomes in the Management of Empyema

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1525-1531

  Wozniak, Curtis J ^a   Paull, Douglas E ^a,b   Moezzi, Jazbieh E ^b   Scott, Rosalyn P ^a,b   Anstadt, Mark P ^a   York, Virginia V ^a   Little, Alex G ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACIC SURGERY;

APACHE; BACTERIA; COMORBIDITY; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64649107305     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.028     Document Type: Article

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