Practical management of pleural empyema

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Pulmonary Series

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 124-129

  Tassi, G F ^a   Marchetti, G P ^a   Pinelli, Valentina ^a   Chiari, S ^b  

^a SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chest drainage; Empyema; Medical thoracoscopy; Parapneumonic pleural effusion; Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DECORTICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYSIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOSCOPY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

EID: 78649842927     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: 2465101X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2010.296     Document Type: Review

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