eComment: Is video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery really superior to open decortication for empyema thoracis?

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 78-

  Edwin, Frank ^a   Frimpong Boateng, Kwabena ^b  

^a KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Ghana)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIDEMENT; DECORTICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NOTE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 67650120098     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.203190A     Document Type: Note

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