Complex space-filling procedures for intrathoracic infections - personal experience with 76 consecutive cases

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 478-481

  Botianu, Petre Vlah Horea ^a   Dobrica, Adrian Cristian ^a   Butiurca, Alexandra ^a   Botianu, Alexandru Mihail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

Intrathoracic muscle transposition; Thoracoplasty; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHUS FISTULA; CHEST INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECORTICATION; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCLE TRANSPOSITION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURA EMPYEMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN NECROSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX SURGERY;

ADULT; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; THORACOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 74149092244     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2009.08.031     Document Type: Article

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