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A single institution experience for the management of recurrent pleural effusions with tunneled pleural catheter and its evolution

BACKGROUND: Indwelling tunneled pleural catheters (TPCs) are increasingly being used to treat recurrent pleural effusions. There is also an increased interest in early pleurodesis in order to prevent infectious complications. We studied the time to removal and other outcomes for all the TPCs placed...

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Autores principales: Raman, Tuhina, Meena, Nikhil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5933586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28799457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1753465817721146