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Assessment of Intraoperative Microbiological Culture in Patients with Empyema: Comparison with Preoperative Microbiological Culture

Purpose: Assessing microbiological culture results is essential in the diagnosis of empyema and appropriate antibiotic selection; however, the guidelines for the management of empyema do not mention assessing microbiological culture intraoperatively. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that intraope...

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Autores principales: Akamine, Takaki, Kitahara, Hirokazu, Hashinokuchi, Asato, Shimokawa, Mototsugu, Miura, Naoko, Kometani, Takuro, Shikada, Yasunori, Sonoda, Takashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Editorial Committee of Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33967122
http://dx.doi.org/10.5761/atcs.oa.20-00327