Severe Mediastinal Infection With Abscess Formation After Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbrochial Needle Aspiration

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1271-1272

  Parker, Kathryn L ^a   Bizekis, Costas S ^a   Zervos, Michael D ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND GUIDED TRANSBROCHIAL NEEDLE ASPIRATION; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEG EDEMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALAISE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

ABSCESS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77949555308     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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