Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis

Appropriate management of empyema thoracis is dependent upon a secure diagnosis of the etiology of empyema and the phase of development. Minimal access surgery using video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) is one of many useful techniques in treating empyema. Complex empyema requires adjunctive treatment...

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Autores principales: Wait, Michael A, Beckles, Daniel L, Paul, Michelle, Hotze, Margaret, DiMaio, Michael J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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CME Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789675
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38908
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author Wait, Michael A
Beckles, Daniel L
Paul, Michelle
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DiMaio, Michael J
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description Appropriate management of empyema thoracis is dependent upon a secure diagnosis of the etiology of empyema and the phase of development. Minimal access surgery using video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) is one of many useful techniques in treating empyema. Complex empyema requires adjunctive treatment in addition to VATS.
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spelling pubmed-27491972009-09-29 Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis Wait, Michael A Beckles, Daniel L Paul, Michelle Hotze, Margaret DiMaio, Michael J J Minim Access Surg CME Article Appropriate management of empyema thoracis is dependent upon a secure diagnosis of the etiology of empyema and the phase of development. Minimal access surgery using video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS) is one of many useful techniques in treating empyema. Complex empyema requires adjunctive treatment in addition to VATS. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2749197/ /pubmed/19789675 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38908 Text en © Journal of Minimal Access Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wait, Michael A
Beckles, Daniel L
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Hotze, Margaret
DiMaio, Michael J
Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
title Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
title_full Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
title_fullStr Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
title_full_unstemmed Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
title_short Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2749197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19789675
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.38908
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