Complex pleural empyema can be safely treated with vacuum-assisted closure

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sziklavari, Zsolt ^a   Grosser, Christian ^a   Neu, Reiner ^b   Schemm, Rudolf ^a   Kortner, Ariane ^b   Szöke, Tamas ^a   Hofmann, Hans Stefan ^a,b  

^a Hospital Barmherzige Bruder Regensburg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PLEURA EMPYEMA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053528643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-130     Document Type: Article

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