Pleural controversy: Optimal chest tube size for drainage

Respirology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 244-248

  Light, Richard W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

chest tubes; hemothorax; pleural effusion; pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; STREPTOKINASE; TALC; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER ASPIRATION; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CATHETERIZATION; CHYLOTHORAX; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DYSPNEA; EMPYEMA; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; IATROGENIC PNEUMOTHORAX; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARGE BORE CHEST TUBE; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURODESIS; PLEURX CATHETER; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SMALL BORE CHEST TUBE; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; THERAPY EFFECT; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX DRAINAGE; TRAUMATIC PNEUMOTHORAX; TUBE;

CHEST PAIN; CHEST TUBES; CHYLOTHORAX; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FIBRIN; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551555391     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2010.01913.x     Document Type: Article

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