Intrapleural instillation of autologous blood for persistent air leak in spontaneous pneumothorax- is it as effective as it is safe?

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Karangelis, Dimos ^a   Tagarakis, Georgios I ^a   Daskalopoulos, Marios ^a   Skoumis, Georgios ^a   Desimonas, Nicholaos ^a   Saleptsis, Vasileios ^a   Koufakis, Theocharis ^a   Drakos, Athanasios ^a   Papadopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Tsilimingas, Nikolaos B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, AUTOLOGOUS; CHEST TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOSTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955541283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-5-61     Document Type: Article

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