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Thoracoscopic management of empyema thoracis [PDF]
, 2008 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.
DiMaio, Michael J. +4 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1909 The following experience seems sufficiently remarkable to be worth reporting. The cases mentioned all occurred in my practice during the six months from Dec. 1, 1908, to June 1, 1909, in a rural community having a radius of less than four miles, with the center about seven miles northwest of Norborne, Mo.
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IDCases, 2022 Empyema necessitans is a rare empyema complication characterized by an extension of empyema out of the pleural space into the subcutaneous tissues of the chest wall.
Akane Tanaka +9 more
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, 2017 Background/Purpose: Acute thoracic empyema is a common clinical problem worldwide, resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to report its clinical characteristics and to evaluate whether thoracoscopic surgery is ...
Chen, Ke-Cheng;Chen, Hsuan-Yu;Lin, Jou-Wei;Tseng, Yu-Ting;Kuo, Shuenn-Wen;Huang, Pei-Ming;Hsu, Hsao-Hsun;Lee, Jang-Ming;Chen, Jin-Shing;Lai, Hong-Shiee +1 more
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyIntroductionRecent studies have proposed primary empyema and demonstrated a correlation between it and the microbial composition of the oral cavity.
Yun Huang +10 more
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Evaluation of complicated and uncomplicated parapneumonic effusion in children
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2016 Parapneumonic effusion (PPE) and empyema are most often seen as a complication of bacterial pneumonia and occasionally associated with atypical bacteria or viruses.
Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli-Aydın +6 more
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Clinics, 2019 OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the risk factors for pulmonary abscess-related empyema by investigating the clinical characteristics and chest computed tomography imaging features of patients with pulmonary abscesses.
Xing-Dong Cai +9 more
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Streptococcus gordonii empyema: A case report and literature review
IDCases, 2023 Empyema is often caused by Streptococcus anginous species, followed by Streptococcus pneumoniae. The organism Streptococcus gordonii belongs to the Streptococcus mitis group, which rarely causes empyema.
Jin-Hao Xu +3 more
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, 2017 Objective: To delineate whether serotype 19A invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) comprised significantly more necrotizing pneumonia and empyema in children, we compared the clinical characteristics between serotype 19A and non-19A IPD.
Lai, Chen-Yin;Huang, Li-Min;Lee, Ping-Ying;Lu, Chun-Yi;Shao, Pei-Lan;Chang, Luan-Yin +1 more
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