Rediscovering high technology from the past: Thoracic surgery is back on track for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1109-1115

  Pontali, Emanuele ^a   Matteelli, Alberto ^b   D'Ambrosio, Lia ^c   Centis, Rosella ^c   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^c  

^a GALLIERA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

extensively drug resistant tuberculosis; multidrug resistant tuberculosis; surgical treatment; thoracotomy

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORACOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84870621238     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.12.108     Document Type: Review

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