Open Window Thoracostomy Treatment of Empyema Is Accelerated by Vacuum-Assisted Closure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1131-1136

  Palmen, Meindert ^a,b   van Breugel, H Nathalie A M ^a   Geskes, Gijs G ^a   van Belle, Arne ^a   Swennen, Jos M H ^a   Drijkoningen, André H M ^a   van der Hulst, Rene R ^a   Maessen, Jos G ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAUZE DRESSING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MUSCLE FLAP; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESIDUAL LUNG PARENCHYMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL WOUND; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX WALL DEFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70249130903     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.030     Document Type: Article

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