Surgical management of primary empyema of the pleural cavity: Outcome of 81 patients

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 565-567

  Shahin, Yousef ^a   Duffy, John ^a   Beggs, David ^a   Black, Edward ^a   Majewski, Andrzej ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empyema thoracis; Postpneumonic empyema; Primary empyema; VATS debridement; VATS decortication; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEBRIDEMENT; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950677719     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.215004     Document Type: Article

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