Predictors of outcome with medical therapy in patients with pleural infection treated with intra-pleural fibrinolytics
In patients with pleural infection, the failure of medical treatment (drainage and antibiotics) results in the need for surgery and/or death. It would be clinically helpful to be able to predict this failure at the time of presentation. We examined clinical predictors of outcome with medical therapy...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1998
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