Interventional management of pleural infections

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1148-1159

  Heffner, John E ^a   Klein, Jeffrey S ^b   Hampson, Christopher ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; DORNASE ALFA; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BLEEDING; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEVER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURISY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 70350091437     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-2956     Document Type: Article

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