Successful Treatment of Infected Residual Pleural Space After Pulmonary Resection With Autologous Platelet-Leukocyte Gel

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1689-1691

  De Giacomo, Tiziano ^a   Diso, Daniele ^a   Ferrazza, Giancarlo ^a   Venuta, Federico ^a   Francioni, Federico ^a   Coloni, Giorgio F ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS PLATELET LEUKOCYTE GEL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GEL; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOBECTOMY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT DURATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CANDIDIASIS; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LUNG TUMOR; PLEURA DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REMISSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION;

AGED; CANDIDIASIS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GELS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PLEURAL DISEASES; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REMISSION INDUCTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 70449709441     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.03.096     Document Type: Article

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