Surgery should be the first line of treatment for empyema

Respirology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 202-207

  Petrakis, Ioannis E ^a   Heffner, John E ^b   Klein, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest tube; Empyema; Spiral computed tomography; Thorcoscopic surgery; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

CATHETERIZATION; DECORTICATION; EMPYEMA; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOSCOPY;

CHEST TUBES; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PLEURAL CAVITY; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 76249114648     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01677.x     Document Type: Review

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