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Parapneumonic Pleural Effusion and Empyema
Respiration, 2008At least 40% of all patients with pneumonia will have an associated pleural effusion, although a minority will require an intervention for a complicated parapneumonic effusion or empyema. All patients require medical management with antibiotics. Empyema and large or loculated effusions need to be formally drained, as well as parapneumonic effusions ...
Coenraad F N, Koegelenberg +2 more
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Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen, 1998
Thoracic empyema may be based on four different etiologic mechanisms of infection: (1) parapneumonic, (2) posttraumatic, (3) postspecific, (4) postsurgical. According to morphologic processes, three different time-dependent stages may be present: (1) exudative phase, (2) fibrino-purulent phase, (3) organization and pleural peel formation. Diagnosis and
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Thoracic empyema may be based on four different etiologic mechanisms of infection: (1) parapneumonic, (2) posttraumatic, (3) postspecific, (4) postsurgical. According to morphologic processes, three different time-dependent stages may be present: (1) exudative phase, (2) fibrino-purulent phase, (3) organization and pleural peel formation. Diagnosis and
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THE CHANGING PICTURE OF PLEURAL EMPYEMA
Archives of Surgery, 1956MANY IMPORTANT changes can be ascribed to the chemotherapeutic drugs and antibiotics. Striking examples of these changes are found in the clinical picture of empyema, its incidence, pathogenesis, and treatment. In the short space of twelve years the frequency of empyema among admissions to the thoracic section of the New Haven Hospital has dropped from
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Use of Indwelling Pleural Catheters for Chronic Pleural Infection
Chest, 2008Najib M Rahman +2 more
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