Surgical treatment of 26 patients with necrotizing pneumonia

European Surgical Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-18

  Tsai, Y F ^a,b   Tsai, Y T ^a   Ku, Y H ^a  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b ST MARTIN DE PORRES HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bronchopulmonary fistula; Lung resection; Necrotizing pneumonia; Pneumonia; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATORENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEDGE RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PNEUMONECTOMY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955395562     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: 14219921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000327684     Document Type: Article

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